America at 250: Public Servants Were the Idea. Tax Servants Is What We Got

Two and a half centuries ago, the American founders attempted something radical. They built a government specifically designed not to accumulate too much power. It was intentionally slow, limited, and divided against itself. The idea was simple: if ambition countered ambition, tyranny would have a hard time getting traction.

Creating the Monster: The American Bureaucracy

Creating the Monster: The American Bureaucracy Source: http://www.fernbyfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/photo-frankenstein-1931-2.jpg “The path toward the creation of the modern American state was not linear as some would suspect, but neither was it merely thrown off course by the Progressives in the early twentieth century. It began in the Founding era itself.” “The most powerful and lasting legacy of …

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