The Cost Of Rights
October, 1999
when you put a price tag on freedom, guess who paysThe Declaration of Independence proclaims that all men are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights." And to secure these rights, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "governments are instituted among men."The founding fathers constructed one such government, limiting its powers to certain well-defined functions.Two years after the Constitution was ratified in 1788, James Madison drafted the Bill of Rights to create a bul...
