It’s Not Protect and Serve; It’s Command and Control
When government people say they want to “protect you,” they usually mean they want to control you. The problem with giving the government more power to do good is bad people will eventually end up with that power. You can’t get rid of bad people. The...
Anti-Federalist Warnings: Government Power is Forever
During the debates over ratification of the Constitution, Anti-Federalists repeatedly warned about the dangers of too much power. One of their prominent arguments centered around the maxim that once power expands, people with power never seem to voluntarily give it...
George Mason’s Warnings on Power and Consolidation
Many anti-federalists warned us about the dangers of centralized power. And George Mason was one of the most prominent, warning that a consolidated government “is totally subversive of every principle which has hitherto governed us,” and that it “is one of the worst...