a dog-eared town

“I am persuaded that a firm union is as necessary to perpetuate our liberties as it is to make us respectable; and experience will probably prove that the National Government will be as natural a guardian of our freedom as the State Legislatures.”

– Alexander Hamilton (speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, June 1788)

Reference: The Works of Alexander Hamilton, Henry Cabot Lodge, ed., II, 28.

Isn’t it so quaint that some of the founding fathers actually thought a federal government would look after the people’s freedom. The sad fact is, it has been almost the exact opposite.