Click here for audio version. When you’re young and are taught in school about the Declaration of Independence, the Liberty Bell, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, you are sold an America: independence from an oppressive, coercive, foreign government, constitutional limitations, guaranteed rights, privacy, a government of, by and for the people, the land of the free and the home of the brave, etc. Later, when you get a little older and want to start driving yourself to school, you learn that it’s against the law unless you pay a fee and get permission from the government. Later, when...
