“Consolidation must end in the destruction of our liberties.”
Patrick Henry couldn’t have been any more blunt: Centralizing power would destroy liberty – guaranteed.
It’s pretty simple. Big government is the enemy of freedom.
The founders knew this from their own history. They fought a long, bloody war to secede from a system where the final say on anything and everything came from the center. George Mason was keenly aware of this and called consolidation a rejection of the Revolution:
“the very idea of converting what was formerly a confederation, to a consolidated Government … totally subversive of every principle which has hitherto governed us.”
My, how things have changed.
Today, people left, right and center clamor for consolidation because they think Washington, D.C. is their savior. Ironically, these same people often blame only “the other side” for giving the feds too much power.
That’s how you end up with a consolidated government.
We the people ignored every warning about consolidation – and what a surprise – we now live under the largest government in history.
Here at the TAC, we take the founders’ warnings about consolidation seriously, and we work tirelessly to undo it. We drive state, local, and even individual action to reestablish the constitutional limits on government power and decentralize the system.
But we can’t take on this behemoth alone.
The consolidated government gets support from a multi-billion-dollar education system and well-funded think tanks with deep pockets.
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And for Patrick Henry, centralization wasn’t just a bad idea. It was public enemy number one. He warned that of all the dangers inherent in government power, “those of a consolidation are most destructive.”
The Antifederalist Cato was even more specific, foreseeing exactly what we’d get with a consolidated government
“Impracticability in the just exercise of it, your freedom insecure, even this form of government limited in its continuance, the employments of your country disposed of to the opulent, to whose contempt you will continually be an object.”
We now live in the future the founders warned us about. Consolidated federal power has become the greatest threat to the freedom it was supposedly created to protect.
No matter how difficult the odds, it’s up to us to begin the process of turning that around.
“The acquiescence of the people of a state under any usurped authority for any length of time, can never deprive them of the right of resuming the sovereign power into their own hands, whenever they think fit, or are able to do so, since that right is perfectly unalienable. “
-St. George Tucker (1803)
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