Thomas Jefferson observed, "An ignorant people cannot remain free."
The connection between an informed electorate and the very real solutions at its disposal has never been more direct than it is today.
Absent an understanding of our constitutional structure, we're poorly armed to take up our part in defending the barriers that protect individual liberty.
Many Americans go to the polls armed with little more than the mass-media's crafted presentation of current events and a head swimming with partisan rhetoric filled with utopian promises peddled by politicians eager to convert fears and desires into political power. While widespread constitutional literacy must be restored, one indispensable and uniquely American bit of wisdom we must restore immediately is this: government is force.
A just and competent government cannot be the instrument through which the problems presented by human living are "solved." Force cannot make us healthy, wealthy, or wise.
It cannot make us socially acceptable nor grant the blessings of upward mobility. Government is only to protect life, liberty, and property.
This basic, almost instinctive insight shared by the majority of Americans only a generation ago, served as a yardstick against which candidates, office-holders, and policy prescriptions were measured for many decades.
The erosion of subscription to this elemental understanding of government-power limits has lead to virtually unlimited grants of power in recent decades.
Today our federal government is now dominating rather than serving our society. While racking up nearly $20 trillion in debt, it demonstrates ever-diminishing competence in the areas of delegated authority.
Our obligation to restore the sanity of our predecessors and the Constitutional constraints on federal government Power is no less a fight for liberty than was that of the founding generation and those who fought the Revolutionary War. We must approach our part in the cause of liberty with the same sense of duty.
Share the Constitution's lawful and orderly solution to a runaway federal government with a fellow citizen today. Join in the fight to bring power home.
