Also, the TRUE key to sensible living is “Moderation in ALL things”, and that includes government intrusion into our personal liberties as expressed by the American Founding Fathers.
“... to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ....”
The ONLY stated purpose of government is to protect our rights - not trample on them.
Unfortunately, they committed a GRAVE error when they inserted the “... promote the general Welfare ...” clause into the US Constitution, and EVERY SINGLE offensive and specious law or regulation can be traced to this one element in the document that was supposed to describe our rights and the methods to protect them.
The way I understand it, the Founders were limiting FEDERAL government ... not all government. Government at the State, county, city level was not addressed by the Founders.
Isn’t county/city as small as government can get? And if we support SMALL government we have to acknowledge that do we not?