“The question is whether the government is providing means for people to use the

“The question is whether the government is providing means for

people to use their judgement in pursuit of their own goals, or whether

it is using people as means to ends of the government’s devising.”

Our founder’s first mistake was in failing to separate law-making (law-discovery) from the levy and use of taxes. Their second was in using unclear language in the constitution – particularly the commerce clause. Their third was assuming that the church would persist indefinitely as a competitor to the state and source of moral education.

And by way of colonialism, anti-communism, education and evangelism, we have now spread this set of errors around the world.

Multiple-Secession and constitutional evolution are the only means by which we can repair these errors.

Yet, even that is unlikely. The majority of people do not want either freedom or responsibility. They equate freedom with consumerism and the welfare state.