Hi,
Here is the letter I submitted to the editor of the local paper today. I would URGE everyone to do the same and send a letter to your local paper. Feel free to just cut and paste this one, James Madison wrote it, I sure didn't,
regards,
5412
Dear Editor,
My wife and I attended the town hall meeting with Congressman Manzullo on Friday night. It is our understanding an amendment to the health care bill was proposed that would require the President, Cabinet, Congress and 4000 federal employees to be covered by the same plan. All Republicans voted yes, all Democrats voted no, the amendment did not pass.
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE AND ALL DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ALIKE SHOULD DEMAND THEY BE INCLUDED. To all in Congress I submit one paragraph from James Madison Federalist paper #57 as my response.
".....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....."
