“At the end of the Commission on National Goals report is the following: Attributed to American Assembly, founded by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1950 when he was President of Columbia University.

Attached to the report was a pamphlet entitled “Suggestions for Holding a Local Assembly on National Goals.” The process for arriving at “consensus” explained in the pamphlet is actually group dynamics. Consensus is not consent! These documents prove there has been a well-formulated and funded plan to change the American system of government through decision making by unelected task forces, Soviet-style five-year plans, Delphi-type discussion groups, etc. This type of participatory decision making called for by regional government involving partnerships and unelected councils—is taking place in every state of the nation today. It is rarely challenged since few Americans understand our constitutional form of government, and are, therefore, unable to recognize the important differences between a representative republic and the parliamentary form of government found in socialist democracies.”

 

- From The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America -

"It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please. Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. It [the Constitution] was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect."

- Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on a National Bank, 1791 -

"The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex."

- James Madison, Federalist No. 48 -

"One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one."

- James Madison, Federalist No. 48 -