Originally posted by Coco Pops
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The founding fathers of the US were (quite properly) fearful of government, even of the one that they were creating. They deliberately restricted its powers and at the same time maximized the power of the citizenry.
Consider the 10th amendment:
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
But that is inconvenient to those who would use the power of government to accomplish their goals. So over the past 100 years at least, the Constitution has been being ignored or outright violated by every branch of government, right on up to and including the US Supreme Court, the supposed guardians of the Constitution.
This is the root cause of the decline of freedom in the US, in my opinion.
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