The Anti-Federalist Nightmare
During the debates over the US Constitution, those who wrote for the adoption of the Constitution produced a brilliant series of pamphlets extolling the virtues of the Constitution. These were known as the Federalist Papers.
Lesser known though were the writings by those opposed to the new Constitution. In these pamphlets the writers expressed their fears over shortcomings in how the Constitution was written. These were known as the Anti-Federalist Papers.
Today we are living in the nightmare scenario that the Anti-Federalists warned us about -- the concentration of power in the hands of a few and the subsequent bypassing or outright ignoring of the limits on power mandated in the Constitution.
Ronald Reagan on Obama and the rest of the communists in government today.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?
... Ronald Reagan, January 20, 1981.
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