Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“‘One of the vilest systems that can be set up.’ That’s how Thomas Paine described government by precedent – when government uses power not because it’s authorized, but because someone else got away with it first. No constitution. No limits. Just repetition and raw power. One act becomes two. Two become twenty. In no time, power is no longer delegated – it’s simply assumed. This is how free people become subjects. This is how the so-called ‘land of the free’ became home to the largest government in history. This might be the most dangerous political habit in American history: letting yesterday’s crimes justify tomorrow’s tyranny.” (04/30/25)