The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.
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Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.
America was founded to be a beacon of liberty, particularly religious liberty. The framers of our Constitution sought to preserve religious liberty to such an extent that they made it the first right protected in the Bill of Rights.
Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.
The U.S. Constitution was meant to be universal, not just something that only America would observe. The principle of defending liberty for all people ideally should apply everywhere in the world.
Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.
As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.
I have always been thankful that so many of our country's greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.
Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. Liberty is not provided by government; liberty preexists government. It's our natural birthright, not a gift from the sovereign. Our founders upended things and divided power to enshrine a promise, not a process.