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Here in Colorado, we pride ourselves on individualism and we are very community oriented. But I will agree with you that 80 years ago, taxes on the average American, were almost non-existent and the government was far less intrusive into the lives of the American people.

We had fewer laws that restricted speech and religion.

I don't agree with you at all.

WE could build as we pleased upon our own land without government interference.

Okay. There are too many regulations on building today.

There are a host of ways that people were freer. Don't deny that.

I don't deny that the scope and size of the federal governemnt hasn't grown out of control since 1922. But I don't believe our basic individual freedoms, having been undercut, as some folks do.

The point of this forum is to restore this country to a constitutional republic as the Founders intended.

The mission statement of Free Republic by Jim Robinson is about halfway down the linked page, under What is our mission?

Any thoughts on this, especially the parts about the Federal government acting unconstitutionally?