Freedom For All

There is a constant battle between the government and the Constitution. The government needs the Constitution to legitimize its power but at the same time seeks to shirk any limits it imposes on that power. An insidious tactic in this campaign is the advancement of the idea that if the public wishes to be safer, the government must be subject to even less constitutional control. This is nonsense, of course, and historically indefensible. The greatest and most present danger to civilized nations in the last few centuries has usually been their own leaders.