Re: U.S./Canada Border crossing.. How It Is Here

Posted by Bill of TN on December 20, 2006 at 07:34:13 from (69.254.81.227):

In Reply to: Re: U.S./Canada Border crossing.. How It Is Here posted by Dannie on December 20, 2006 at 02:22:35:

I find this funny as well.....our neighbors to the north are so much like us in so many ways that we have to keep them out.....(or they want to keep us out, haven't quite figured out which).

Our neighbors to the south, of a different culture, and who speak a different language, we can't welcome them enough even though they are changing our culture.

Here's what James Madison, the "father" of the constitution had to say about the subject while trying to convince the 13 colonies to federalize.

From the 2nd federalist paper:

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed02.htm

"It has often given me pleasure to observe that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected, fertile, widespreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty. Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions, and watered it with innumerable streams, for the delight and accommodation of its inhabitants. A succession of navigable waters forms a kind of chain round its borders, as if to bind it together; while the most noble rivers in the world, running at convenient distances, present them with highways for the easy communication of friendly aids, and the mutual transportation and exchange of their various commodities.

With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people--a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.

This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties."

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