“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
A “frightful despotism,” would be the result of an “alternate domination of one faction over another,” warned George Washington. He was joined – with similar warnings – by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Thomas Jefferson and many others....
The Founders universally opposed “consolidation” – or centralization of government power – as dangerous and destructive to liberty. Patrick Henry, James Madison, Fisher Ames, George Washington and others warned against it. But today, we see it on almost...
The Founding generation fought a long, bloody war to free themselves from an empire – the largest government in history at the time. Today, they’re probably rolling in their graves because the people have long-embraced the same centralized despotism the founders...