limited government Archives

NATELSON: How the Founders Explained Limits on the Federal Government

July 21, 2026 Rob Natelson

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”– James Madison, Federalist No. 45 Current controversy over the power of President Trump to send the National Guard into American cities reminds us of perennial questions about … Read more

Notable Quote – Even When “For Goodness”, Government MUST Always Be Restricted

January 8, 2023 Skip

Unless we are willing to restrict the powers of government even in respects where it might be used for good purposes, we shall not succeed in preventing an indefinite growth of government powers. To allow everything which seems expedient for the achievement of a desirable end is to dispense with all moral principles. The submission … Read more

If ONLY the Republicans actually DID what they SAY!

January 3, 2023 Skip

I’m going to try to write like Grokster Ed – short and sweet. IF the GOP actually believed in what they say AND do what say they believe, this post wouldn’t exist. You could ALSO say that if the Party officials actually instituted some discipline on their elected and appointed officials, this post wouldn’t exist, … Read more

Writing an Excellent Constitution for the Planet Mars

December 28, 2022 Op-Ed

Our US Constitution seems to be out to lunch, as they say. Some scholars may wish to fiddle with it in order to make it work better. But I shan’t try that, as I am pretty sure it would be a waste of time.

So, NH Gov. Sununu, Once Again, Is Talking Out of Both Sides of His Mouth: Local Control, Parental Bill of Rights, Masks

May 22, 2022May 21, 2022 Skip

Yeah, sure thing, Baby Huey. Once again, you’ve taken an issue important to your (now shrinking) Republican base and tossed it into the trash can. And again, it’s over what PARENTS believe is best for their children. Nice to see that you’re showing us that you’re “Bigger” than they are – and using the rubric … Read more

Did NH DOT Decide to Get Political If the Canadian Trucker Protest Comes to NH?

January 30, 2022 Skip

I got a tip from a Loyal Reader concerning a State level response from the Canadian Trucker Protest that was going to Ottawa and then to Washington over Vax mandates centered on truck drivers:

We Americans Used to Not Need Much Government but Progressives Screwed Us Over

November 21, 2021 Skip

“Here in America you can see how slightly a people needs to be governed… Here are governments, but no rulers – governors, but they are clerks.

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48 Socialist US Senators Should Trump the Other 52 in a Vote???

October 2, 2021October 2, 2021 Skip

Communist Bernie Sanders – do I need to say more? He’s ticked that 2 Democrat Senators, Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, are “thwarting” the will of the other 48 Democrat Senators in getting the Biden/Socialist $5.5 Trillion agenda passed. 2 senators cannot be allowed to defeat what 48 senators and 210 House members want. We … Read more

We Must Resist the Politicization of Business and of Capital Markets

April 20, 2021 Skip

Our Founders clearly delineated their vision for us – a limited Government constrained by the Constitution. A large, vibrant, and robust Civil Society that was to be the place for self-governance in action. And that large expanse to be the buffer between that limited government and the third faction, Individuals.

Yes, Driving Is a Privilege and Not a Constitutional Value but Are Legislators Supposed to Determine Our Lives?

March 31, 2021March 30, 2021 Skip

As the Declaration of Independence holds, the purpose of Government is to protect our Liberties and Freedoms. The Federal Government was limited to a few, distinct Powers.

What America Represents … Facing the End

October 31, 2020

What America represents is the freedom and opportunity to which all people should aspire. America is the nobility of our accomplishments in history. How far we have come from small groups in wooden boats.

Notable Quote – It used to be about the Constitution

September 12, 2020 Skip

Our Founders wanted a limited Government constrained by the Constitution. But if our elected Representatives refuse to even talk about the Constitution’s limitations upon them, how can it be limited?

Notable Quote – George Will, Prof. Don Boudreaux

June 1, 2020 Skip

Can a federal government that acknowledges no limits to its scope, and that responds promiscuously to the multiplying appetites of proliferating factions, make choices that serve the society’s long-term interests? The answer, based on the avalanche of evidence from current governance, is an emphatic “no.” The evidence is in the rise of the administrative state … Read more

Dismantling the Leviathan and Restoring the American Dream

March 16, 2020 Steve MacDonald

There is a struggle going on because Trump is dismantling the Leviathan and restoring the American dream. It often doesn’t seem that way listening to the media. Our media, academia and many in politics serially violate traditional, classic liberal standards. They have an obsession over Trump’s blunt personality, lack of verbal sophistication and “nuance.” … Read more

A $540 million Fee Increase – By a Republican?

December 7, 2019December 6, 2019

You know that we Groksters will call out malice on either side of the aisle when appropriate, and this time it’s a Republican who has earned the spotlight. A representative from one of the most republican districts in New Hampshire has put in two very, very, anti-liberty bills. One of those bills will create a … Read more

Hmmm, I could agree with feminists on this idea

June 9, 2019 Skip

Sorta like the line that Jim Bender had when he ran for US Senate from NH a couple of election cycles ago (it drove his professional campaign staff to absolute HORROR!): “a government small enough to put into a burlap bag, wrap a rope around it, and drown it in a bathtub”. I can hear … Read more

Libertarianism is the widely reviled idea that we should use reason and persuasion to accomplish our distributive aims.

May 1, 2019April 30, 2019 Skip

Libertarianism is the widely reviled idea that we should use reason and persuasion to accomplish our distributive aims. Only reason and persuasion. According to the libertarian, it is wrong to utilize threats of violence in the form of state-sponsored coercion, however sublimated by bureaucratic routine, in order to redistribute property that we have an antecedent claim to. … Read more

Yes, Taxation IS Theft…

April 15, 2019 Steve MacDonald

You may have been seeing or hearing this phrase around town lately – and for good reason. It’s been catching on as Democrats run their clown cars further and further off the rails every week. (NH Budget, Family Leave, and Taxation is Slavery, etc. etc.). So, is taxation really theft? Leftists argue that taxes are … Read more

DISQUS Doodlings Part 2: “If we want to make better decisions or do things in our society’s self-interest, we need to be tricked into doing them”

February 22, 2019 Skip

“If we want to make better decisions or do things in our society’s self-interest, we need to be tricked into doing them,” explained Steve Valk from the Citizens Climate Lobby. Yeah, these folks think just SO highly of their fellow citizens. Yet another Jonathan Gruber type; just outright lie to folks in order to fulfill your political … Read more

Government now controls 50% of all our goods & services

December 30, 2018

When our nation was founded, we the people allowed the government, all forms of government combined; municipal, county, state and federal, to control about 10 percent of all of the goods and services produced in the American economy, our economy. That status remained true, more or less, for about 150 years. During that period America … Read more