It was the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments that changed us from a republic to a democracy. Those implemented two planks of communism, by pulling power away from state governments and into DC and by centralizing a permanent tax on income.
As Woodrow Wilson said, “socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same”. Therefore, the guarantor of liberty would be limited republican government by contrast; literally, democracy is a centralizing power that puts collective over individual and has proven so everywhere, and we’re seeing the endgame worldwide.
Nice post.
If there was an anti-Rushmore, Wilson would certainly belong there along with FDR, Lincoln, and LBJ. I don’t know who I’d nominate for a fifth person.