What happened to limited government?

Michael Warren

9/17/2009

Two hundred twenty-two years ago, the members of the Constitutional Convention signed the federal Constitution and undertook an unparalleled revolution in the forms of government. As the heirs of this grand experiment, we too often ignore the work they accomplished at our peril.

During the past year, our nation has been transfixed by crisis, government and populism: Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, pirates, banking, mortgages, economic stimulus, health care, energy, auto companies, tea parties and town halls. The tyranny of the urgent is suffocating the eternal.

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