The Founders on Power: 8 Essential Principles for a FREE Society

By Michael Boldin

The Founders knew that freedom can ONLY exist when power is kept under strict limits. Anything else is arbitrary power – how they defined tyranny.

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1. POWER FLOWS FROM THE PEOPLE

• George Mason – Virginia Declaration of Rights (12 June 1776)
• Robert Livingston – New York Ratifying Convention (19 June 1788)

2. POWER MUST HAVE DEFINED LIMITS

• Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Patrick Henry (28 May 1789)
• Maryland Farmer No. 3. Part 1 (7 Mar 1788)
• Brutus IV (29 Nov 1787)

3. POWER NOT GIVEN IS RETAINED

• George Nicholas – Virginia Ratifying Convention (10 June 1788)
• Edmund Randolph – Virginia Ratifying Convention (21 June 1788)

4. POWER ALWAYS SEEKS TO GROW

• Abigail Adams – Letter to John Adams (27 Nov 1775)
• Federal Farmer No. IV (12 Oct 1787)
• Samuel Adams – Letter to James Warren (24 Oct 1780)

5. ARBITRARY POWER IS TYRANNY

• Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part II (1792)
• John Locke – Chapter 18 – Tyranny
• St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

6. POWER TO DO GOOD IS THE POWER TO DO EVIL

• John Jay – A Citizen of New York (15 Apr 1788)
• Oliver Ellsworth – A Landholder III (19 Nov 1787)

7. CONSOLIDATION IS TYRANNY

• Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)
• Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Joseph C. Cabell (2 Feb 1816)

8. POWER DOESN’T LIMIT ITSELF

• Episode – Constitution 101: Enforcement Mechanism

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Michael Boldin [send him email] is the founder of the Tenth Amendment Center. He was raised in Milwaukee, WI, and currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. Follow him on twitter – @michaelboldin and Facebook.

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