…if only we could somehow convince our political leaders of the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson. In response to a draft of the constitution, Jefferson wrote to James Madison,

I do not like… the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations.

Protection against standing armies! Restriction against monopolies! The eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws!

I can’t even imagine what a country like that would be like!!!