Protecting Liberty and Freedom
Transparency is Important
In order to keep Michigan’s government honest and preserve our freedom, we must make our state government transparent. Michigan should model a system after the Missouri Accountability Portal.
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."
-- attributed to Mark Twain, Gideon J. Tucker and others
"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree."
-- James Madison
Take Back States' Rights
The federal government has been overstepping its Constitutional powers for over a century. Why is the federal government involved in education, healthcare, welfare, and the list goes on.
Constitution of the United States – Amendment X
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Thomas Jefferson
"They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare.... [G]iving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please."
James Madison, the Father of the Constitution
"With respect to the two words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. If the words obtained so readily a place in the "Articles of Confederation," and received so little notice in their admission into the present Constitution, and retained for so long a time a silent place in both, the fairest explanation is, that the words, in the alternative of meaning nothing or meaning everything, had the former meaning taken for granted."
James Madison
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite."