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Commentary
find amazing parallels in each.
We need not go back almost two millenia, however. America’s Founders created the Constitution after a rebellion against autocracy, against “taxation without representation.” Certainly the Founders were aware of the importance of farming, education, transportation, charity, housing, health and medical care, religion. Was the government given a role in any? Only in one, the negative provision that no state religion should be established! None of the others is even mentioned.
Discussions leading to the Constitution’s adoption make the authors’ intent to limit government’s powers clearer. Writing in “The Federalist Papers” (.41), James Madison “classified . . . the several powers conferred on the government of the Union . . . ”: defense, foreign affairs, regulating relations between the states, and some “miscellaneous objects of general utility.” Not much there! The intent was a small, a limited, government.
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