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Empire: That would be the form of government from which Jefferson and his colleagues violently and successfully seceded.

Unchecked government is the archenemy of personal liberty. And a government that rejects its founding values, that keeps persons dependent upon it rather than independent of it, one that recognizes no limits to its powers and assaults the liberties of those it governs should be altered or abolished before liberty’s last gleaming becomes a long cold darkness.

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by Andrew P. Napolitano

We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington?

Is there more freedom when governed by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants a few miles away?

Does government today remotely resemble the values articulated on July 4th 1776?

When the President of the United States bombs the lawful facilities of a foreign country that pose no threat whatsoever to American national security and does so without a congressional declaration of war as the Constitution requires, when thousands of non-violent folks in America are arrested by masked federal agents without warrants and kicked out of the country without due process, when troops patrol the streets of a large city in defiance of federal law, when both major political parties support mass surveillance, undeclared foreign wars and borrowing trillions of dollars a year to fund a bloated government, nearly all of which is nowhere countenanced by the Constitution, we can safely conclude that personal liberty in our once-free society has been radically diminished and is in the twilight of its existence.

Two hundred and forty-nine years ago this week, Thomas Jefferson was fuming in his rented rooms in Philadelphia as the Continental Congress was softening the tone of his final draft of what would become the most critical document and radical articulation of the origins of human freedom in American history.

The Declaration of Independence is an indictment of King George III as well as a manifestation of limited government and maximum individual freedom. Though the final version dropped some of Jefferson’s more bellicose language, the document as we know it is largely his — not only his lofty language but also the three principal Jeffersonian values that it manifests.

The first of those values is natural law. The natural law teaches that our rights come from our humanity and our humanity is a gift from God.

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