A reading of our founding documents would reveal that God grants liberty, rights and freedom to mankind that is to say the individual, it is man who creates government and gives it the duty to safeguard those rights to stop evildoers and to provide justice (according to natural law) our founders understood the fallen nature of man and the absolute dangers of a pure democracy and instituted safeguards in our Constitution to separate the powers and provide a Republican form of government as it states in the Constitution.
What separates the difference in outcomes between the American Revolution and the failed French Revolution? Democracy was what the French adopted and what our founding fathers warned us against that's why they gave us a Constitutional Republic, you can trot out all the 20th century revisionist textbooks you want but that will never change what the founding fathers understood at that time and said so! They had just bought a revolution to free himself from the tyranny of a king, and knowing the fallen nature of man why would they allow a tyranny of a majority in a democracy which is basically mob rule. Those Americans today having the eyes to see can look around and recognize why our founding fathers warned us against democracies!
Natural law is like gravity, you can rail against it deny it's very existence and that it directly affects your life but you cannot defy it without real destructive consequences to the individual and to society as foisting the lie that the United States was founded as a democracy has shown us today in the destruction and trampling of our rights and liberty. If you are one of the few here who favor socialism then go to one of the socialist countries and live, go to where you can practice what you preach.

Excellent comments here today but I'm thinking about another I believe it was from Benjamin Franklin? He stated that our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people and that it would not work for any other. It is obvious the problem is not with our Constitution the problem is with our people because they have turned their face away from their creator God and his natural law which is the source of their freedom and rights so is it any wonder the system of government we were originally given no longer works for us, it has been corrupted by unscrupulous individuals working for darker forces, remember we have a creator God but we also have an adversary waiting and wanting to destroy us and he is using the forces at his command and Karl Marx is one of them along with the people who push the progressive agenda.
It is all a seamless garment those pushing to Institute secular humanism as our state religion know exactly what they are working for. I firmly believe there cannot be a political restoration of our founding principles and Constitution in the absence of a religious revival of the source of our liberty.

Sorry Ray but you missed the boat.

Anonymous, that's your opinion but it doesn't jive with the facts of economics and history of alcohol prohibition.

Out the window, thank you very much for the failed war on drugs and the patriot act.

Even Fox News Channel is one sided when it talks about marijuana issues, no fair and balanced there. I guess our generation is not as smart as the one that repealed alcohol prohibition. The failed war on drugs is an excellent example of the cure being worse than the illness.

Is it too late to work within the corrupt system or too early to start shooting the bastards? Our history and founding principles have been scrubbed from the government indoctrination system.

Nothing more heartbreaking than to watch one of those man on the street interviews with college students on the campus with basic questions and being treated to a display of complete and utter ignorance.

Unflattering truth of human nature.

@Mike, Unless the statists engage in legalized plunder i.e. (THE LAW) then they like it just fine.

Wow, That SPLAT I am hearing has to be Wafflers intellectual intestines hitting the floor as a result of Archers eviscerating cut.

Sometimes the exchanges here are better than reading the quotes.

Anonymously bigoted?

"Required to submit to medical practices of the doctors in the medical profession." I don't think so, you're going to have to expound on that statement John.

It's Gobbledygook.

Anonymous, schizophrenic? Perhaps you prefer a woman unconscious or dead in an alley with her panties around her ankles?
It would seem you have a problem with the right to self-defense, I wonder if that would extend to defending your own family?

Cal, ah yes the 16th amendment the law that never was.

Machiavelli 101, group identity benefits the progressive statists it's the old divide and conquer game. There's nothing better than willing slaves!

True Quotation. "No one likes a suck up traitor" Really?

There's a reason slaves are not permitted to be educated (an ignorant population is easier to control and manipulate) because then they can recognize the truth for themselves to be able to reject the spoonfed propaganda and lies of their master. The liberal Democrat plantation does not like runaways it gives the willing slaves ideas, and that can never be tolerated!

Frankly I'm shocked that Juan Williams can recognize this and still be a liberal, content to remain on the plantation, even after the NPR firing. Now that's the real Uncle Tom.

It is a mistake to judge the founders time using terms of left and right with today's political and social measuring stick Warren.
The US politically has moved SO FAR to the extreme left (the Overton Window) that even a moderate would be portrayed as a right wing extremist.

Truer words were never spoken regarding the so-called civil rights leaders epitomized by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, shameless self promoters selling the snake oil of ignorance and dependency to his own race.
The sooner the black community rids themselves of these kinds of parasites the better off they will be.

Unfortunately the progressive mind cannot resist the temptation to make everything fair and just to an impossibly ridiculous degree that flies in the face of basic human nature always chasing that elusive Utopian dream of heaven on earth.

Enumerate away Mr. anonymous, I would be interested if you have his book and had read it?

Perhaps you could read something else called "THE LAW" by another author Frederic Bastiat.

A FRICKING MEN!!!

Explains Obama.

The myth of the three coequal branches must be dispelled, but historically correct argument is that the judiciary is the least powerful branch of government because it is farthest from the control and accountability to the people in the legislature is the most powerful because it is the closest to the peoples accountability.
Through the years the court has usurped (judicial supremacy) and given itself powers and jurisdiction that were never granted to it in the constitution and they are not the final arbiters of of what is and what is not constitutional, it is time for the people to put down this judicial oligarchy.

Anonymous, it's obvious you are not even trying to get it! How utterly sad.