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I am increasingly partial to monarchy. Not the one of GWB of course. But clearly even a restrictive written constitution is not enough to stop the tyranny of government. Actually, I do think that the right of sucession might have been sufficient to keep the governments of America in check. But, absent that it is clear that government has no bounds.

"In the United States, all this protection requires a Code of Federal Regulations that takes up 26 feet of shelf space, thus “revealing the almost totalitarian power of democratic government."

I would say ignorance of the law is to be expected. Really, how can this many laws be in force while we call our country the land of the free? This of course even ignores state and local laws. But this gives me an answer to the question "what freedoms have you lost?" I'd say "26 feet of them!"

[Mark Bahner]

"But clearly even a restrictive written constitution is not enough to stop the tyranny of government." It was, right up to WWI in the United States. That's over 100 years of experience in limited government. What stops the tyranny of government is what the citizens will allow. If ALL Republicans demanded that their Republican elected officials return at once to government according to the Constitution, we'd have government according to the Constitution. What is preventing that is that, clearly, not all Republican citizens want government according to the Constitution.