Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” ~ James Madison (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US PresidentSource: 1792, in disapproval of Congress appropriating $15,000 to assist some French refugees