"It made me think of what you once told me - "in five years the Corleone family will be completely legitimate." That was seven years ago.
I know...I'm trying darling."
―Kay Adams and Michael Corleon
Fahgedaboudit.
The American Declaration of Independence specifies a uniquely constrained purpose for American governance:
"TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men"
To secure them from what; to secure them from the organized criminal human nature whereby the collective/tribal herd always historically gravitates toward the subjugation of the Individual?
Hmmm. Sounds regulatory. Wonder what The Godfather thinks of that?
As for the rest of your post regarding securing liberty, Mark Levin's new book Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America spells it out one step at a time from the earliest days of Western democracy what the strains of philosophy were that went into our Founding and how they differ from today's utter corruption. It is hard going at first, but soon becomes very inspirational to read:
