Founding Principles

Keith Thompson inFrontPage Magazine on the Founding Father's intentions in setting up constitutional government.

The final chapter of [Thomas Sowell's book] The Quest for Cosmic Justice is titled The Quiet Repeal of the American Revolution. That's what's at stake [in today's political debates], but it's not going to happen. Not as long as men and women who understand that the true meaning July 4, 1776 is alive and well in the recognition that

* a government without limits inescapably descends into tyranny;
* the proper role of federalism is to create safe conditions for the states to experiment in creating conditions in which culture and economy may freely evolve;
* the only alternative to interpreting the Constitution to mean what its words say in the plain language of the time in which they were written is to reduce our nation's guiding charter to the status of the Framers' unfinished to-do list, and thus to subvert the rule of law.