The constitution gave our government a limited, an enumerated and a delegated right to act, dispensing power between three balanced branches. ... We saw it in everything from the suspected "conspiracy" that killed a president to the mercenary politics that waged political wars We saw it in the in the 1970s as big government regulated our economy into a recession of unemployment and inflation. ... Government, over the span of our sententious history has taken on more and more of one thing: power. Lord Acton summed it up best when he stated, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts...

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