In February 7, 1792, James Madison, addressed the House of Representatives about a proposed bill to subsidize cod fishermen.  He foresaw a precedent in the proposed action and gave this grave warning: 

"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands;they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, everything, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress…. Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America."

Now, more than 200 years later, we face an election that is focussed on the same concern.  It's a matter of the balance between federal power, state's rights and individual liberty.  120 years ago, our nation took up arms to violently contest similar issues.  Our nation was forever scarred by that rift.  Yet the issue did not die.

But this November 2, we can once again address this basic issue of our liberty.  And we have the power of the ballot-box to speak against tyranny and for the freedoms we cherish.  Do not fail to exercise your most important right to vote and help our nation retreat from the deadly error of imbalance that Madison warned about.