[Personal Responsibility]

They thought of just about everything. They knew a time like this time would come.

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It’s because they understood history and history clearly shows that people and power do not mix well. That’s why the Constitution is a limiting factor on government (a document of negative rights) and not an enabling factor (a document of positive rights).

The founders understood the paramount importance of defining what the government was allowed to do while expressly saying it was not allowed to do anything else. They understood powerful people very well and the powerful people’s mindset has not changed. That’s why the arguments they made 200+ years ago apply to today and they seem prescient.

The tools and trappings of man has changed but the nature of man has not.

[Carry_Okie]

The founders understood the paramount importance of defining what the government was allowed to do while expressly saying it was not allowed to do anything else. They understood powerful people very well and the powerful people’s mindset has not changed.

Oh really? If they understood so well that powerful people are inclined to mischief, why is it that there was absolutely NO ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM by which officers of the government would be punished for usurpation of power?

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad attempt. Patrick Henry, Saturday, June 14, 1788, First speech: Restraint on corruption

[DeaconRed]

The tools and trappings of man has changed but the nature of man has not.

We are on the same page. . . Same Hymn. . . . .