Fortress Washington

August, 2008

THE CONSTITUTION IS SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE FROM GOVERNMENT. BUT NOW GOVERNMENT PROTECTS ITSELF FROM THE PEOPLEII the men who wrote the American Constitution were to revisit the nation they created, they would be shocked at what they found. Today, instead of protect­ing the people from the government—the system the founders designed—the government is increasingly try­ing to protect itself from the people.Consider how things have changed. Two hundred and twenty-one years ago, harassed and...