Ignorance vs. Freedom: Reclaim the Constitution and Liberty
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,” wrote Thomas Jefferson, “it expects what never was and never will be.”
That’s why the TAC (Tenth Amendment Center) focuses on educating people about the original meaning of the Constitution, the foundational principles of liberty, and the American Revolution.
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For far too long politicians, bureaucrats, judges, law professors, and chattering pundits have told us how the Constitution should work – instead of the other way around. The political class has “interpreted” the rules. And they’ve interpreted them to give themselves more and more power over all of us.
They teach us from day one that the only way to keep the government in check is to convince the government to keep itself in check.
Jefferson warned us how that would play out, noting that allowing the government to determine the extent of its own power would put the people of the several states “under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them”
After generations of this – just like Jefferson warned, we now have a federal government that claims the authority to do virtually anything and everything. Along the way, our liberties have been trashed. Today, the so-called “land of the free” labors under the largest government in history.
If we want to reclaim our freedom, something has to give. It’s time for…