Quotes and Realities
- In God Is Our Help
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"Give us aid against the enemy for the help of man is worthless. With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies."
- Psalm 60:11-12 (NIV)
- James Madison
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"I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. And if that be not the guide in expounding it, there can be no security for a consistent and stable, more than for a faithful, exercise of its powers.... What a metamorphosis would be produced in the code of law if all its ancient phraseology were to be taken in its modern sense."
- James Madison: member of the Continental Congress; delegate to the Constitutional Convention where he signed the federal Constitution; along with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, he co-authored the Federalist Papers which were instrumental in securing the ratification of the federal Constitution; member of the U.S. House of Representatives where he helped frame the Bill of Rights; Secretary of State under President Thomas Jefferson; elected as the fourth President of the United States.
Quoted from: Barton, David, Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 2010), 28: originally quoted from Madison, James, The Writings of James Madison, edited by Hunt, Gillard (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1910), Vol. IX, 191, to Henry Lee, June 25 1824.
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Have you ever read the Constitution and wondered “what were the Founders intentions behind this or that phrase?” The US Constitution in the Resources section contains online references to the Federalist Papers – an early work by three founding fathers on the intention of each section of the US Constitution. But, if you are looking for something more lively, you could turn to the records of the continental congress link in the Resources section, under Congressional Records, or Elliot's or Farrand's records of the debates, or read about the intentions in the more personalized correspondence, writings and letters of the founders.
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