Citizen Advocates for Constitutional Principles

Citizen Advocates for Constitutional Principles

Constitutional Gems - # 642 – 10-21-06

Focusing on the Constitution- by George Sweeney

"The government is for the people; and the misfortune was, that the people had no agency in the government before....If the government is to be binding on the people, are not the people the proper persons to examine its merits or defects?"
-Governor Edmund Randolph in THE DEBATES IN THE CONVENTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, ON THE ADOPTION OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.

The US Constitution was originally a combination of a national and federal constitution. It was national in that the authority came from the people in order to establish the new government. It was also federal because the states agreed to share and surrender certain authorities with the new government.

Question: Why does the authority for government come from the people that are governed?

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Focusing on Constitutional Principles - Donald Conkey

A Founders Profile: John Jay (1745-1829) was the first Chief Justice of the United
States Supreme Court, appointed by George Washington. He was a Founding Father, a
member of the First and Second Continental Congresses and served as President of the
Continental Congress. He joined Alexander Hamilton and James Madison in writing the
Federalist Papers, which were essential to the ratification of the new Constitution.
Jay helped write the Constitution of New York, and later served as its Governor.
Jay, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, negotiated the peace treaty to end the
Revolutionary War. He authored the Jay Treaty, which prevented the United States
from getting involved in the war between England and France. A staunch believer in
the Bible he was elected president of the Westchester Bible Society in 1818 and
became president of the American Bible Society in 1821. John Jay was a very talented
Founding Father. 

Source: Skousen's The Making of America

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