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Reverence for the Founding Fathers

Some people treat the Constitution as the Bible, and I'm suspicious of people who think quoting a Founding Father ends the argument. Yet re-reading the Federalist Papers is a reminder why so many revere the Founding Fathers: They were brilliant thinkers and writers. The sign of a great writer is this: Is he quotable? Great writing shares sublime insights with elegance. The Founding Fathers' writings are book after book - rather than line after line - of insight and style Who in today's government could you imagine writing this? If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on December 06, 2010 (boomark / email).