LIMITED GOVERNMENT

The Concept of Limited Government

The Concept of Limited Government

The government of the United States, for all its majesty, is a government of limited powers. It functions under the periods of a basic charter — an in writing Constitution — which identifies what it may manage, and furthermore what it may not manage, and which repairs certain methods for its dealings with its citizens.

If a Constitution is to have force and significance, the restraints which it enforces on the government — which is to state on the will of the most — should be applied by men as detached as may ...