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Thomas Sowell: Dismantling America

By Alliance Alert

Thomas Sowell writing at Townhall: "The Constitution was not only a challenge to the despotic governments of its time, it has been a continuing challenge-- to this day-- to all those who think that ordinary people should be ruled by their betters . . . It was the Progressives of a hundred years ago who began saying that the Constitution needed to be subordinated to whatever they chose to call 'the needs of the times.' . . . The agenda then, as now, has been for our betters to decide among themselves which Constitutional safeguards against arbitrary government power should be disregarded, in the name of meeting "the needs of the times"-- as they choose to define those needs."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 17, 2010 (boomark / email).