Constitutionally Limited Government

Constitutionally Limited Government The Tea Party consists thousands of independent local chapters dedicated to the principles of: 1. Fiscal responsibility. 2. Constitutionally limited government. 3. Free markets and the free enterprise system. The government has thousands upon thousands of rules for us. Obamacare alone has ~2800 pages and 20,000 pages of regulations and counting. The Constitution contains our rules for the government. With the recent news of the Obama administration using the IRS and other government agencies against its opponents, secretly subpoenaing telephone records from reporters and lying about and covering up their gross negligence in leaving our ambassador practically unguarded despite clear warnings Al Qaeda was active in that area, underscores the importance of the Tea Party principle of constitutionally limited government. I believe we have only seen the tip of the iceberg of the Obama administrations lying, corruption and political thuggery. [For example, how did Bank of America get the idea it should deny financing to companies engaged in the gun business?] Please see http://www.redstate.com/2013/05/15/will-no-one-rid-me-of-this-turbulent-... Just as Henry II never ordered anyone to kill the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Beckett, Obama may not have ordered any of these actions. He did not have to. Obama made his desires clear to the Dem apparatchiks in the bureaucracy. These actions may be the Chicago way, but they should never become the American way. In America, we have only known liberty and democracy, but they are rare and fragile things in human history. Our founders recognized the frailties of human nature and wrote a Constitution to limit the power and reach of government. Our Constitution, at 4400 words, is the shortest and longest surviving constitution in the world. Our Constitution produced the longest surviving democracy in the world. Three quotes, two from the Founders and one from a more recent President. “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” Thomas Jefferson “There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” John Adams “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” Ronald Reagan Our Constitution is the foundation of our liberty and democracy. Our Constitution is the agreement under which we govern ourselves as a free people. With the ever growing size, scope and power of the Federal government, run by Leftists [and liberty is not value of the Left], the Constitution and constitutionally limited government are even more important than they were in 1787 if America is continue as a free and demoractic country.