The first step to "Liberty
Under God" is "backtracking" to return to the Constitution.
Millions of government employees have taken an
oath to "support the constitution" who have never
read the document, and have no educated understanding of its most
basic principles.
- Whenever I allege that a certain government program or
action is "unconstitutional," the most common
reactions are
- "So what?"
"The Constitution was written a long time
ago."
"Don't you have any confidence in our government?"
- This attitude is un-American. Thomas
Jefferson warned:
In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of
confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains
of the Constitution.
Instead of following the Constitution, we took a wrong turn,
heading toward totalitarianism. We must turn around. Ignore the
cries of those who say "But what about the progress we've
made?" We were progressing down the wrong road.
In the
next Two Years, Congress
should:
- Consider the
Constitutionality of Every Proposed Law
- Stop Delegating
Lawmaking Authority to the Federal Bureaucracy
- Stop the Abuse of
Executive Orders
- Rein in the
President’s War Powers
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In the
next Two Decades, America should:
- return to the Founders' vision of strictly limited
government
- replace "the
administrative state" with locally-directed
voluntary associations and Free Market arrangements
- reject "the war on terrorism" -- perpetual
war for perpetual peace; embrace "peace,
commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,
entangling alliances with none."
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Introduction
(Cato Institute)
Remembering
the Constitution (Future of Freedom Foundation)
Questions
a Congressman Should Ask about Every Bill
next: Limited Government and
the Rule of Law
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