James Madison

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #85 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Tax Foundation, ALEC, the James Madison Institute, and the Goldwater Institute.

When we celebrate leading American founders such as George Washington and James Madison, we sometimes overlook their talented colleagues.

This is part 3 of the 8 part series establishing that the laser-focus of the Compact for America approach to organizing an Article V convention with the specific job advancing and ratifying a pre-drafted, specific federal Balanced Budget Amendment is clearly, unequivocally, and overwhelmingly what the Founders expected from the state-originated amendment process.

Occasionally, someone who, like myself, loves history will add Madison, the fourth President, but Lynne Cheney’s new biography of Madison rightly identifies him as the man most responsible “for creating the United States of America in the form we know it today.” It was Madison who guided the process by which the Founders arrived at the Constitution, contributing the fundamental principles it incorporated and writing the Bill of Rights, amendments that ensured its ratification by the original states.

The Leviathan in the modern “democratic” state counts on us to simply throw up our hands and submit. Refuse.

Lincoln understood that the intertwining of free labor and property rights was essential to securing and maintaining the liberty espoused by the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed by the Constitution.