STARBOARD TACK: The Free Nation makes a Course Correction

The Free Nation Founding Fathers anticipated that government would gain a self-awareness and seek its own increase. They had assumed the “checks and balances” would limit this expansion of the power of the State over the Individual. They were used to a slow communication process with time for common sense to rise to the top in public discourse. They did not anticipate that a professional political class would gain control of Congress by exploiting the loopholes of term limits and repetitive...