[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

The Founders would agree with her. Virtuous people elect virtuous leaders, who establish virtuous policies.

The loss of virtue as a cultural aspiration will lead us further and further into corruption.

[C. Edmund Wright]

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[BooBoo1000]

She divorced Jim a long time ago.Jim can be irritating, but he seems to have a good idea about what is going on, and I like his reasoning.

[BooBoo1000]

She divorced Jim a long time ago.Jim can be irritating, but he seems to have a good idea about what is going on, and I like his reasoning.

[loveliberty2]

Upon reflection, this discussion is an extremely important one for all conservatives to have today. Does not the "limited government" our Constitution was intended to secure rely on the very idea of "virtue," as articulated by the Founders?

We must not naively trust "parchment barriers" (Madison) as our limits on those we elect. That is why we check their records, their associations, their lives, as indicators of the likelihood that they will exhibit fidelity to the Constitution's limitations. In other words, we want to know that they will be "virtuous" protectors of "the People's" Constitution.