It's always instructive (and often entertaining) to delve into historical events and controversies and draw comparisons with present issues.
The history class I'm taking this semester focuses on the development of the US from 1789 to 1825. Does the quote in my new signature -- drawn from the partisan conflict over the Alien and Sedition Acts -- spark any ideas?
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
Those limits have been widened over the years, by all sides, and now the W administration is using a pocket knife on the seams.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Just so that future readers are not totally confused now that I'm changing my signature, I'm posting the original quote here:
quote:"...It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism -- free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power: that our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go..." -- Thomas Jefferson, The Kentucky Resolutions, October 1798
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