Jefferson on American Liberty

verfasst von JüKü, 04.07.2002, 18:13

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<font size="2"><font size="4">by Gary M. Galles</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;</font>




<font size="2">[Posted July 4, 2002]</font>




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<font size="3">Jefferson once asked a seminal question:&nbsp;<font face="Arial">"</font>Sometimes
it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.&nbsp;Can
he, then, be trusted with the government of others?"&nbsp;&nbsp;</font>




<font size="3">Our founding documents were designed, in part by Jefferson's
hand, to answer that question for America.&nbsp;We were to have a government
with the reach and power to do only certain enumerated things deemed necessary
to maintain our rights and sustain our experiment in liberty.&nbsp;&nbsp;</font>




<font size="3">This was to minimize the extent to which some would govern
others, rather than letting them govern themselves.&nbsp;On the anniversary of
Jefferson’s most famous words--and the anniversary of his death--it is
appropriate to consider how far we have departed from that initial principle of
our founding, and what can be done to reclaim the vitally important liberty we
have lost in the process.</font>


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<font size="2">Gary M. Galles is a professor of economics at Pepperdine
University. Send him&nbsp;MAIL,&nbsp;and
see his Mises.org&nbsp;Articles
Archive. For more on Thomas Jefferson, see also <em>Jefferson's
Philosopher</em><em>,</em> David Gordon's <em>The
Jeffersonian Revisionism Hoax</em><em>,</em> Thomas DiLorenzo's <em>The
Founders on Government</em><em>,</em> Roderick Long's <em>Equality:
The Unknown Ideal</em>, and <em>The
Election of 1800 </em>by Joseph Stromberg.


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