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<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;">September 9, 2011</p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;">Dear Supporters of the Constitution and our Republic,</p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;">Last night, in his address to the joint session of Congress, Obama made two of the most startling remarks coming from the mouth of a sitting President.  However, the sentiment contained in those remarks is, unfortunately, shared by most of the politicians in Washington D.C. and around the country.  We have come so far from the sound thinking of our Founding Fathers who did not trust a powerful central government and did all they could to create “chains” which would “bind from mischief” politicians of their day and those of future generations.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px;">This distrust of the federal government, in particular, is clearly laid out in both the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Federalist Papers</span> and the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Anti-Federalist Papers</span>., the latter being largely unknown and unread by Americans today.  The Constitution, itself, was a clear declaration of the great fear of the Founders that some day the people might again be enslaved by their own government.  Therefore, the separation of powers, the clear and detailed enumeration of delegated powers, and the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution forge what the wise founders of this once-great Republic envisioned as “chains” to leash the natural consequence of government at any level: the tendency to grow and gain more and more power over the people.  Fresh in their memories were the tyrannies of the British crown and the almost totalitarian control of its “subjects.”  No more were the people to be considered “subjects” but the government itself was envisioned as being subject to the States and the People.</p>
