Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 20, 2009

In an 1824 letter, Thomas Jefferson offered a concise description of our federated constitutional republic.

"With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations [are] correctly understood by foreigners,? Jefferson observed. ?They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole."

Jefferson would be mortified to learn that today, as the Obama administration blithely defies constitutional restrictions on federal power, the states have become entirely dependent on Washington.

For the first time in our country?s history, the largest source of revenue for state and local governments is not sales, property, or state income tax. It is the federal government, which is disbursing countless billions of dollars ? created out of nothing by the Federal Reserve ? in so-called stimulus spending and other subsidies.

Our country is rapidly approaching the final exit ramp on the road to serfdom.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.