Issue Position: Government

Issue Position

What is the role of Government?

In the Declaration's preamble, they told both the world and generations to come that, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men…"

Never has there been a more clear and concise explanation of the true purpose of government. Government, properly constituted and run, exists to protect our God-given rights. When we allow government to expand beyond its allowed boundaries, we find our God-given rights, our liberty, in jeopardy.

Unfortunately, the history of government shows a strong tendency to expand at the expense of our liberty and our economic freedom. This is why the Founders created a government with three separate branches to check and balance one against another -- they understood that power tends to concentrate and that power, once gathered, can threaten liberty.

Unfortunately, today we are living in a time when necessary checks and balances have been severely undermined by the administrative state. The administrative state, a progressive concept, is a state with a robust regulatory bureaucracy that combines the power of all three branches of government. We see this concentration of power in federal agencies that have been ceded the ability to make law (called regulations), execute the law and determine guilt or innocence.

If our Founders were alive today, they would likely be shocked and disappointed with what we have done to the form of government they created for us.

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