Self-government is the Key

The Founding Fathers believed that the key to preserving human freedoms was via local self government. They knew that political power always gravitates towards the center. This was the reason and sole purpose for Our Constitution. It was to prevent big government from taking over. The Founders knew that when power becomes centralized it destroys liberty because it transfers the decision making power away from the individuals to the government "officials." Hence, people loose their freedom to resolve their own problems and end up without a voice in community affairs.

Thomas Jefferson's Opinion
"The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to perform best. Let the national government be entrusted with the defense of the nation, and its foreign relations; the State governments with civil rights, laws, police, and administration of what concerns the State generally; the counties with the local concerns of the counties, and each ward [township] direct the interests within itself. It is by dividing and subdividing these republics, from the great national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best. What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and powers into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia and France, or the aristocrats of a Venetian state."

James Madison's Views
He said it more succinctly:
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former [federal powers] will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce…. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State."

Where Are We Today?
Have you ever lived outside of the United States? Too bad if you have not. You have nothing to compare it to. You are unable to comprehend what our government in Washington has become and what it is doing to YOUR liberties. The only way left that you would know that you're loosing your freedoms is to understand the Founding Fathers. Unfortunately, most Americans do not take the time to realize what we are loosing with BIG GOVERNMENT ruling our lives. It's time to WAKE UP America before it's too late!