We Are Exactly Who the Founders Were Trying to Protect Us From � ~ BLOGGER.1984.GUNNY.G ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)

We Are Exactly Who the Founders Were Trying to Protect Us From ~ BLOGGER.1984.GUNNY.G ~ (BLOG & EMAIL):

"Their sole and emphatic purpose in imposing a system of checks and balances among the three branches of the federal government was to prevent the accumulation of power; and in imposing a system of federalism between the national and state governments to prevent the usurpation of authority rightfully belonging to the states or to the people.

The genius, then, was not only in proclaiming the natural rights of man, but also in acknowledging the need to protect those rights from man’s natural desire for power.

Man’s desire for power does not always come from those with evil or corrupt motives. It also arises in those who believe they are possessed of beneficent, even magnanimous intentions. There are two simple reasons, however, why our founders were not fooled by the promised good intentions of their fellow man: today’s seemingly good intentions become tomorrow’s despotism; and the price of accepting the good intentions of government is paid for with a loss in liberty and a surrender in self-reliance.

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