The quote given from Edmund Burke is illuminating and quite sound and sensible but, I daresay, they were sure long-winded in them long-ago days.
It always comes down to where people join up with the statists and liberals and where to draw a line.
Example: Cameras on traffic lights. For public safety. What's the fuss? We need to stop speeding and red light running. Don't break the law and you won't have to worry.
Is that something the founders would have advocated?
The problem is that this style of government eventually gets around to everybody. We will all be criminals of some sort. That's the intention.
It's great that people post the writings of the framers and the thoughts of Burke, Smith, etc..but socialism is here. Most people acquiesce to it. Most people even practice it now, as when they twist themselves into knots to show that they would never, never, never offend a member of an anointed pressure group.
Those days of yore hadn’t been subjected to “sound bytes”, and the pace of life was 1 or 2 horsepower versus up to several hundred horsepower as is today.
I’m having a problem with the word “modesty” in sullivans blatherings, and am prejudice towards anything Sullivan thinks anyway. I think he’s a bubble off center.
I’d need to see the entirety of Sullivan’s thoughts to attempt a full analysis of which way to tilt the level, but being as it’s Sullivan Mr. Levin is discussing, I’m going to go on down the FR page finding far more interesting reading.