[governmentstillsucks]

That is interesting. It took me a while to digest. And this is what I came to: are you and Sam saying that our Fore Fathers were anti Government (less power in the hands of the few and checked and balanced), in order to preserve the Constitution and those it governs?

Our creed has historically been anti-government, but not in the anarchistic sense. He who governs least, I suppose. In a climate made up of fear of tyrannical despotism and philosophically Calvinist leanings with regard to man and civil authority--not to mention other influences--I think the idea of limiting government was inevitable.

It is very hard for me to imagine Franklin, Madison, Jefferson, et al, getting behind a bureaucratic juggernaut like we have today, which very well may bring us Soviet-style health care and an even greater loss of freedom than decades past.

[do the dhue]

I think you are right about Franklin, Madison, Jefferson, and others. I think they wanted the power for day to day Government to be in the hands of the State and the Fed was to protect us from an outside threat, maintain the peace, and maintain a level playing field. That was about all the Responsibility that they gave they Feds. The rest was to be left to the State. So, I don’t think they would like the size of the Federal Government today.