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The Founding Fathers were far wiser than many of us today about human nature, for indeed “government” is only the expression of the motivations and decisions of the humans we put in office. The truth is that humans crave power, and when we allow humans to have a monopoly on the use of deadly force, their ability to use that power must be kept in chains.

Our present government is a threat because it is giving itself permission to remove those chains. The Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that a government agency will seek to expand its power until something more powerful stops it.

While the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were written with the PRESUMPTION OF INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY that is the inalienable right of each citizen

Government acts with the presumption of total power over each citizen. It is easy for one branch of government to give other branches permission to expand or maintain their power. It is difficult, for one branch to reign in the power of another branch. This is made even more difficult when a common, power-oriented, ideology pervades members of each branch.

The primary limit on government power is the limited money it can spend. When government gives itself power to create near-infinite amounts of money through an “independent” central bank, then there is very little to limit near-infinite amounts of government in all forms, particularly the groups that it will give subsidies to and the bureaucrats it will employ.

Every day more people are coming to the judgment that a carefully organized effort to repair the constitution via the States’ power to propose and ratify amendments has less risk to our liberty and prosperity than the present trajectory of the federal government and especially the federal bureaucracy.

The first order of business of an Article V Convention must be to limit government’s ability to spend and create near-infinite amounts of money.