Friday, October 01, 2010

Jefferson Recognized the Government's Natural Tendency To Grow

Which is why the Founding Fathers did everything they could to limited the powers of the federal government with a Constitution that granted only a few authorities to the federal government. . .

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to E. Carrington, 1788

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

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