Robert Welch was one of the most smeared men of the 20th Century. The Birch Society was also a victim of the Liberal-Left hate speech machine. Certainly, if James Madison and Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine were here today, they would agree with and side with Welch and the idea of limiting government by constitutional and legal means, and they would strongly oppose today's Demokrat Party and its welfare-state fascistic/socialistic agenda. Democrats have contempt for the Constitution because it is an obstacle to their wielding of power by whim. Control freaks abhor fixed rules of the game that cannot easily be amended by whim. Government by whim is tyranny, whether the whim of a king, an oligarchy, or the majority of the moment. The framers knew this. Most Americans no longer understand that any more.