Riffing off Skip’s quote from George Will about limited government not being in the business of imposing its opinions of virtue upon the citizenry, I was reminded of an author I met at CPAC two years ago, whose thesis is simply stated in the title of this post (and his book).
What Kevin Miller says is that the national (Federal) government’s job, as created by the citizens and states, is to maintain our inalienable rights and freedoms, while the job of we the people is to maintain a virtuous society through local and voluntary organizations, including charities and churches. In other words, we should maintain our values and virtues as near to home as possible, and forcibly tell the Federal government that it has no business inventing and enforcing new “virtues”, such as green energy, upon us. Here’s the author, interviewed by Townhall:
There’s also a chapter by chapter discussion on Vimeo.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance against government encroachment!
Mike is a British import of some 27 years, who was a conservative in the days of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
A staunch constitutionalist, Mike espouses all good causes toward the libertarian side of conservative - EG he who governs least, governs best. He believes that the Declaration, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights mean what they say, and that candidates for office should take their oaths of office seriously.
Here to defend, without irony "Your rights as Englishmen from distant and tyrannical government", Mike knows whereof he speaks and exhorts all US citizens to live, breathe and teach our history and our constitution.
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