Is it the U.S. Governments responsibility to protect and uphold its citizens constitutional Rights?
Although government promotes itself endlessly as our indispensible “protector” and principle guardian of our Constitutional Rights, it’s not true. Nevertheless, that self-promotion has effectively conditioned most Americans to believe our Constitutional Rights are respected and vigorously protected by government and public servants. Unfortunately, only a few people realize that government does not automatically protect our Rights, that our inclination to trust government is dangerously misguided, and that our ignorance of our Rights encourages government to abuse those Rights. The relationship between any government and its citizens is, and has always been, at best, ADVERSARIAL: individual Rights are inversely proportional to government power. The more power the government has, the fewer Rights you have. Government can’t grow in size or power except at the cost of our individual Rights and freedom. The founding fathers also realized that all governments seek to expand their powers and
