In his free time James Madison, fourth President of the United States and the man who basically wrote the Constitution, was a hardcore chess addict. This was his real passion. He played against people like Benjamin Franklin, who thought so highly of his game that Franklin gifted him a chess set carved from ivory. Madison treated chess as his escape from the stress of running a country.
Here's the part people forget: Madison was tiny. He is the smallest President in American history, standing about 5 foot 4 and weighing around 100 pounds. So picture the physically smallest man to ever hold the office, quietly out-thinking everyone across a chessboard.
He was also low-key obsessed with ice cream. Madison loved it so much he had a two-story ice house built underneath a temple on his Montpelier estate just so he could keep eating ice cream all summer long. His wife Dolley made it the hit dessert of White House parties, and she was so beloved she inspired the term "first lady" that we still use today.
And when he finally retired, his big hobby was nerdy experimental farming. He was inventing crop and soil methods so far ahead of his time that they didn't catch on for another hundred years.
So the real James Madison: the smallest man to ever be President, crushing people at chess with a gifted ivory set, secretly building an underground ice cream vault, and quietly farming a century into the future.
That's a founding father.
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The FBI had an informant wearing a wire in June of 2024?!
Joe Biden started an investigation into @GavinNewsom?!
Lots of Democrats need to issue apologies.
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SCOTUS and Birthright Citizenship ERROR #2
SCOTUS says the history of Jus Soli establishes that everyone born on American soil regardless of parental legal status automatically becomes a citizen.
However, factually and historically, Jus Soli is a legal doctrine developed by kings and conquerors to expand political power by creating subjects.
I find it disturbingly ironic that the liberal Justices, who claim to see slavery and oppression in every corner of American history, completely overlook the genuinely feudal origins of this doctrine.
This is what happens when history and the Constitution are replaced with political mythology.
Children are born subject to their parents, not to government. It’s a parental authority issue, not a government jurisdiction issue.
Government does not become a child’s master simply because they first draw breath within a particular border.
Even Great Britain, the very nation the majority relies upon to bind us to this feudal doctrine, has abandoned unconditional birthright citizenship.
1. Americans rejected the notion that people are born owing unconditional and perpetual allegiance to kings and governments when we declared Independence.
2. We rejected it again when we established a constitutional republic where citizenship is founded upon law, consent, and allegiance, not the accident of geography.
Now, through an astonishing ignorance of both history and constitutional principle, the majority has resurrected the very feudal philosophy our Founders rejected.
It is a political doctrine that says government owns your political allegiance from the moment of your birth, regardless of the allegiance of your parents.
That is the doctrine of kings and oppressors and therefore patently unAmerican.
If SCOTUS will, through an unfathomable depth of ignorance for political reasons, voluntarily adopt such despotism are we also going to overturn Dredd Scott in some creative but imaginative way that will become championed by the very people it once oppressed?
Every generation that abandons discernment eventually discovers the same truth: unintended consequences are monsters that never stay under your control. Eventually, they turn on their creators.
Stay tuned for Error #3
SCOTUS and Birthright citizenship ERROR #1.
SCOTUS relies on the 14th Amendment to justify Birthright Citizenship while ignoring the limits the 14th Amendment places upon its own authority.
Section 5 of the 14th Amendment reads:
“The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”
Congress has NEVER enacted legislation granting Birthright Citizenship to the children of temporary visitors or those unlawfully present in the United States.
SCOTUS has the authority to review executive orders and determine whether they are constitutional. That is where its authority ends.
SCOTUS does NOT have the authority to write the legislation Congress never enacted.
If Birthright Citizenship extends to the children of temporary visitors or those unlawfully present, the Constitution assigns that decision to Congress not the courts.
By creating through judicial opinion what the Constitution assigns to the legislative branch, the majority has violated the separation of powers and exceeded its constitutional authority.
That is not constitutional interpretation. That is judicial legislation.
Check back later for ERROR #2