This line in my mind is the most significant. The real issue for the Founding Fathers was to make secure the blessings of liberty they had fought so hard to attain. This is why when you look at the rest of the Constitution you will not find what Government is supposed to do but how it is limited so that liberty is not interfered with or destroyed.
This is why you will here Barack Obama and other liberals look at the Constitution as both a flexible document and one that is flawed because it does not establish what government is supposed to do. The fact is the framers and the modern liberal have a very different view on liberty in relationship to government. The framers saw big government as the problem; modern liberal do not.
Liberty is a precious gift whether it is given by a government or God. The framers understood this and in fact revisited this question again and formed the Bill of Rights so that everyone understood how government was limited. They wanted to make it crystal clear what the government could not interfere with in our lives in this country.
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