Tonight, we discussed the Constitution in depth. One thing that kept biting me to tell you all is how important this document is in your lives. Michael Stewart was correct when he talked about how the government of laws creates stability, predictability, and how millions of people want into this country for those things.
We live in a rare country in the history of the world. Not even since the dawn of democracy has a government afforded its people so many liberties at the same time providing them with a relatively stable economy and a consistent way doing things.
The government is only an idea, and a fragile one at that. It is critical that each one of us struggle to keep that idea alive, however we interpret it to be. If you have ever taken a philosophy class, you will learn that an idea that does not stand up to a challenge is not much of an idea in the first place. Our "idea" or government has been tested for over 200 years and it is still going strong. Keep discussing. Keep debating. Keep refining your own points of view. Who knows? Maybe during these debates you will come up with the greatest idea in the history of government, run for office, and make it a reality.
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I didn't know anything about the Limited Government really until today,
sure I have heard about it but but did not know how it worked.
I feel that the people who set up the government were inspired by
diety. To think up of something like Limited Government, how things
are pretty balanced, how it doesn't give to much power to the
government or to the people. I think the nomal or average man is
selfish and wants all the power for themselves, therefore the people in
power in the government would want to control everyone else and the
people would want the government how they thought it should be run and
expect the government to abide by their,(the people's) laws.
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