5000, Year Leap
For today I am going to do a short post on how powerful government is meant to by. By meant to be, I of course mean as laid out by the genius of our founding fathers. The concept of right and left is irrelevant and ever shifting in the world of politics, but there is a way of measuring government power using a scale that is always applicable. On one extreme we have tyranny, the absolute power of one or a few over the whole population. On the other end of this continuum is anarchy which is lack of any government oversight or control. The founders saw anarchy as being just as bad or even worse than tyranny as every individual would potentially be a tyrant as they are bound by no rules of conduct. The founders first flirted with a weak government under the Articles of Confederation. However, this system was too close to anarchy and the federal government lacked the ability to enforce taxation from the sovereign states. This nearly led to our end during the revolutionary war. So later, under the US Constitution, the federal government was given a little bit more power, shifting to a balance between tyranny and anarchy. While this position offered both the benefits of liberty and the protection of unity to the nation, it is a precarious balancing act. The trend for the last 200 years has been for government to inch closer and closer towards the tyrannical end of the scale leaving more and more influence and power in the hands of politicians while the people are left feeling more and more disenfranchised. The very nature of government is to reach for more and more power, it is the nature of the beast and it must I repeat MUST be kept in check by the might of the sovereign people of the United States. Whenever you hear about a new bill, a new law, a new special interest group. Don’t ask yourself if it is left or right, ask yourself will this legislation result in more tyranny or more liberty.
For more information on this subject, check out The 5000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen.
Tyranny——————————————————————-Anarchy
Where are we?
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