July 6, 2024
On Monday, July 8, the group “Patriots for Liberty & Constitution” will be discussing Federalist 25, 26, and 27.
The event description reads, “We are discussing these papers chronologically. Since last week, we have been discussing the issue of national defense. This coming week, we continue on the same subject, from the Federalist 25, 26, and 27. I would like to add the excerpt from a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry. So, enjoy and have fun reading.
“I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt: and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partizans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of it’s being a public blessing.”
“I am for relying, for internal defence, on our militia solely till actual invasion, and for such a naval force only as may protect our coasts and harbours from such depredations as we have experienced: and not for a standing army in time of peace which may overawe the public sentiment; nor for a navy which by it’s own expences and the eternal wars in which it will implicate us, will grind us with public burthens, & sink us under them.”
“I am for free commerce with all nations, political connection with none, & little or no diplomatic establishment: and I am not for linking ourselves, by new treaties with the quarrels of Europe, entering that field of slaughter to preserve their balance, or joining in the confederacy of kings to war against the principles of liberty.”
“PS. The spelling of some of the words was different two centuries ago.”
The group meets at Mountain Valley Baptist Church, 202 S. 7th Avenue in Pocatello, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. For more information, visit: Federalist 25, 26, 27 | Facebook
