Both sought to tie the best traditions of our founding fathers to today's challenges.
There is more wisdom in the US Constitution than even our Founding Fathers realized.
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It's a recipe for strong government, which is exactly why our founding fathers rejected it.
Our founding fathers were very skeptical of democracy precisely because unrestrained democracy frequently leads to tyranny.
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Our founding fathers repeatedly emphasized that democracy requires a virtuous citizenry to function effectively.
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Our Founding Fathers wisely determined that one chamber should accuse and the other should judge.
As our Founding Fathers wrote in the United States, you can always forge a more perfect union.
Is this what our Founding Fathers had in mind -- nonelected judges imposing taxes on the people?
They are engaged oftentimes in making social and political policy that would have amazed our founding fathers.
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One senator gumming up the works for the whole country is certainly not what our founding fathers envisioned.
This - the Congress was setup by our founding fathers, and it's worked well for some 200 years.
It is part of the series of checks and balances that exemplify the genius of our founding fathers.
Our founding fathers intended our government to do the will of the people.
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In addition to those of Rand, the principles of our Founding Fathers very much inform the thinking of the authors.
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Our Founding Fathers well understood the dangers of what they called public passions--what might now be described in Washington as sheer hysteria.
Our Founding Fathers gave us a presumption of innocence and no bureaucrat or politician should be allowed to cancel our constitutional rights.
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"I believe our founding fathers would do anything to come back and get in on this one, " he said in the email.
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Our founding fathers solved that problem two hundred and twenty years ago.
If we had a limited federal government, as our Founding Fathers envisioned, it would be almost impossible to have a bad tax system.
This is just why our Founding Fathers separated the powers of government -- if one branch faltered, another could temporarily step into the breach.
Our founding fathers never intended unelected lifetime judges to act as legislators, yet the Supreme Court does just that in a number of areas.
Our Founding Fathers recognized the enormous benefits of such a system, which is why they placed the patent and copyright clause in the Constitution.
At present the creation of our Founding Fathers limps along with high unemployment, gargantuan budget deficits, and a lack of confidence that is, well, un-American.
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We the People empowers the American people to participate in the traditional petition process our Founding Fathers sought to protect through a 21st century medium.
Our Founding Fathers could have easily created a national religion.
And it did it in the way our Founding Fathers envisioned, through the words of a man elected by the people of America to lead them.
If Santa can visit billions of children in one night, surely our founding fathers can come back for a couple of hours for some much needed butt kicking.
Our founding fathers wrote in code across huge geographic spans.
One big irony: Our Founding Fathers thought the House of Representatives would be the most sensitive barometer of public opinion, because representatives have to face the voters every two years.
Both of our new leaders are creatures of this body, a body that our founding fathers deliberately elevated to one of deliberation and discussion and unlimited debate and enhanced minority power.
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