Analyst's note:   Study this carefully.  To these purposes we absolutely must return.

"SUBTITLE: The Constitution is born.

DAVID BARTON, WALLBUILDERS, FOUNDER & PRES.: George Washington got a bunch of them together and said we need to look at redoing the Articles of Confederation, which led to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 where they did get together and redo the articles. Federation, they looked at it and said let's scrap it and start again. And that's where it became the Constitution.

When you look at the Founders' idea for the nation, it was that the people would be in charge through a representative federal government. And out of the forms of government, the Founding Fathers went through and said, democracy is worse than anything. It's worse than anarchy. Democracy is worse than a monarchy. And we know what they thought of monarchies.

I mean, democracy was on the bottom of the rung because it allowed human emotion to get through. People make decisions when they're angry or when they're happy or when they don't have all the facts.

So, in a representative republican form of government, everything slows down. We complain about the pace of to government, but that's really good because now you have to debate. You have to get two sides in there. You have to look at all the aspects. You have hearings on it get all the information. It's a slow process but it keeps the feelings and emotions out.

But they wanted the people to have the power. The Constitution forbids America from becoming a democracy. And the federal government means that we share the powers in a vertical direction.

SUBTITLE: The purpose of government.

BARTON: Thomas Jefferson, in his first inaugural address, he went through the presidency and said, the purpose of federal government is five- fold things. And in his inaugural address, he listed the five things that the government was supposed to do.

He said, number one, is to acknowledge and adore God. It's interesting -- Jefferson said that but they all believe if you don't start with the acknowledgement of God, you don't understand inalienable rights.

Second thing is for the government to exercise frugality -- frugality in spending and power and authority. Be a frugal government.

He said, third, is to restrain the infliction of injury. Government exists to keep bad guys under control. It's not to regulate the good guys. It's to keep bad guys from hurting somebody.

He said, the fourth thing the government is supposed to do is to encourage entrepreneurship and free enterprise, is to be business friendly and -- because that's where the prosperity comes from, that's where jobs come from.

He said, the fifth thing government should do is to protect property and the earnings of citizens. They consider the money you earn is your property and they couldn't take your money away any more than they could take your house or your property or anything else away.

And he said that's the five-fold purpose of government. Government exists for those five reasons. We've shifted so much away from what they envision, which was a small, limited government with five primary responsibilities where we the people were in charge of all three branches. That's what they wanted for America.

And if we read and study the Constitution and get back to that plan, that's what caused America to be the most prosperous, stable nation in history of the world.

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