Summer Activities
Summer is just around the corner, and one topic of discussion during the April meeting was that of summer events and activities. With 2010 being an election year, it will be important to have a large showing of Republican representation in the various parades throughout the county. A list of these parades will be provided, and we hope that everyone will take the time to walk in some of these parades; we always have a good time! We are also planning some type of family
event/picnic for the public. We will be discussing, and making plans for, this at the meeting. Come ready with ideas!

Website

We hope that everyone visits the Bureau County Republican Women’s website on a regular basis. Our desire is to start adding more fresh content to the site on a regular basis, causing it to be a website that garners important information to help educate our members and the general public. We are looking for volunteers to help supply this information and to help write articles for the website. Education will be key in the upcoming elections, so county, state, and national interests should be covered. Please consider volunteering!

“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.”

–James Madison, letter to Henry Lee, 1824

“They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose. To consider the latter phrase not as describing the purpose of the first, but as giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. 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 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 National Bank, 1791