Day 2: Limited Government

Building on classical liberalism: freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of religion, the right to due process, and equality under the law the authors of the United States Constitution founded a system of government based on ideas rather than power, and purposefully delineated a discrete enumeration of powers for the government with the balance being reserved for the people. 

"The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." 9th Amendment, U.S. Constitution

“Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment, without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourish faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.”- James Madison, The Federalist Papers