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Throughout history, government has been a force for good and for evil. Unfortunately, more often than not, government has oppressed the very people it is supposed to serve.

Just consider the monstrous crimes against humanity committed by modern totalitarian “isms” — communism, Nazism, and fascism — during the last century alone. The body count of innocent victims intentionally killed by their own government outside of war numbers in the hundreds of millions.

But government has also been used as a force for good. Such was the case when America’s Founding Fathers created our own government, which has been aptly described as the greatest experiment in liberty in history. Under the U.S. Constitution, the people prospered. They did so because they were free and able to keep the fruits of their labor, as well as to pursue their dreams and happiness without government interference.


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