[unspun]

Just look in the mirror and consider the fact that the Germans, the Russians, the Chinese, in fact, every nation that has succumbed to the totalitarian impulse was chock-a-block with folks just like you, who thought that governments, by their very nature, are supreme and unlimited.

Achtung! Who, little ol' me?

No, I don't think that. Neither do I think that a free society must be imposed upon to accept license in place of liberty, when it comes to some cockamamie "inalienable right to have, use and market narcotics."

It may sound insulting to Libertarian sensibilities, but the People have the right to govern with our government.

[headsonpikes]

"...the people have the right to govern..."

Yes. The question is, is that power unlimited?

Is there an implicit 'democratic' right to do anything at all that the 'people' think wise? The U.S. Founders thought that very specific limits on the purview of Government ought to be set out, and that a plain assertion of individual rights be appended to the agreed Constitution, in order that there remain no doubt as to who was who under the new arrangement.

The Founders were clear--the People were superior to the Government...as individuals!

The totalitarian impulse is indistinguishable from a belief in 'progress', 'improvement', and 'fairness'; and for the many, not the one.

We libertarians realize that our desires and ambitions need limits; that the best laid plans can never completely anticipate the thankfully unknowable future; and that the best arrangement mankind has worked out so far is that of the original American Constitution, in all its violated beauty.

Utopia is not an option.