APRIL 4, 2010 --

LPR Wonders ...

... are the people in favor of this? --

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution:

Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States.

APRIL 4, 2010 --

LPR Wonders ...

... do the people have any idea of this (from Federalist Paper No. 57)?

I will add, as a fifth circumstance in the situation of the House of Representatives, restraining them from oppressive measures, that they can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interests and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny. If it be asked, what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer: the genius of the whole system; the nature of just and constitutional laws; and above all, the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America -- a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return
is nourished by it.

If this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.....

[Proprietor's note: Some 28th Amendment proponents would like people to email the language to twenty others, with eah of the twenty, emailing to another 20, and so on. LPR would be overjoyed if just two people emailed the text of the first half of No. 57 to just two people and asked those two to email to two others, and so on. And if, along No. 57, mention of LPR were included, that would be cool.]