Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Understanding the Government the Constitutional Convention Invented.


The founders feared government, because governments tended to accumulate power and become tyrannies. The founders did not trust the people, because the people — in pursuing their private interests — might divert the government from the common good. Government was necessary and so were citizens, but both had to be restrained in such a way that the machinery of government limited their ability to accumulate power. Continue reading at -

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