What the Sheep Remember About Checks and Balances

The framers did not build the Constitution on trust. They built it on the assumption that power, left unchecked, would always want more.

The sheep have been thinking about an old American idea that is suddenly very modern again.

The framers of the Constitution did not believe liberty could survive on good intentions alone. They had just fought a revolution against concentrated power, and they were not eager to replace one form of unchecked authority with another. So, when they designed th…