How Can We Prevent A Future Government From Exploiting The Next Global Crisis to Curtail Citizens' Liberties?
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The events of the past two years have been a wake-up call to those of us who naïvely believed our liberties were more or less secure under Western democracy. We discovered that a viral epidemic with an estimated Infection Fatality Rate somewhere in the range of 0.15-0.3%
“ Fifth, citizens must reconceive their role as going far beyond that of merely expressing an opinion about their governments from time to time at the polls. ”
And, if you take that to its logical conclusion, it implies a radical decentralization, eliminating a central point of capture. That means having a central government strictly confined to a small set of enumerated and clearly delineated rights, and constitutional protection that forbids stealth scope increases such as through “commerce clauses”.
“ Fifth, citizens must reconceive their role as going far beyond that of merely expressing an opinion about their governments from time to time at the polls. ”
And, if you take that to its logical conclusion, it implies a radical decentralization, eliminating a central point of capture. That means having a central government strictly confined to a small set of enumerated and clearly delineated rights, and constitutional protection that forbids stealth scope increases such as through “commerce clauses”.