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Moving away from our Constitution is the cause of so many ills

Sep 19, 2017, 5:11 PM | Updated: Sep 22, 2017, 9:53 am

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I am a firm and complete believer that moving away from our Constitution is the cause of so many of our ills. There’s a new poll that says millennials would trade their right to vote for four years if their college loans would be paid off.

This says that they don’t think their vote is worth very much.

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These are college graduates that should have an idea of the value of the vote.

A restrained government is an easier government to track. When a government is involved in a small number of very necessary items it allows a free press to dig deeply into each item and bring transparency to the American people. A big government is involved in so many things that it is easy to hide fraud. That has led to people getting into government to commit fraud and that destabilizes our economy. And it creates a depression in the national psyche. A fearful populace is a dangerous populace.

By moving away from the constraints of the Constitution that called for limited activities for government we have put the government in places where it can’t do a good job.

For every step away from the Constitution we have added mental depression and desperation.

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