From the Editor
Resisting COVID Tyranny
“I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations,” warned James Madison in June of 1788. Later in the same month, the U.S. Constitution was ratified. Madison was so instrumental in the creation and adoption of that great document that he became known to history as the “Father of the Constitution.”
Through a carefully crafted system of checks and balances and other means, the Constitution was designed to prevent the “encroachments of those in power.” The powers delegated to the federal government by the Constitution were few and defined; those limited powers were divided among three branches of government; and all other powers were reserved to the states and the people. Because government was limited, the people were free, and America prospered, becoming the envy of the collectivist old world.
Under the Constitution, the American experience, which is still ongoing, has been far and away the greatest experiment in liberty in human history. Today, 233 years after its ratification, our Constitution is still the law of the land. Yet those entrusted with political power have increasingly overstepped their constitutional boundaries, despite their oaths of office to uphold the Constitution. Their encroachments have been “gradual and silent” — well, relatively speaking at least. There has been no “violent and sudden” overthrow of our government along the lines of what happened when the communists seized control of Russia during their revolution of 1917.
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