If man is to prosper and live in dignity, America’s Founders understood, he must be free. History had taught them that “power lodged as it must be, in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse,” as James Madison said. The Framers of the Constitution sought to design a government that would protect the liberty of the people without itself becoming a source of that liberty’s destruction. Throughout the nation’s history, and especially in the past century, those who desire political power have sought to lure Americans away from that vital design.
Like the nation’s Founders, Americans today must remember their history.
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