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The American founding generations taught that freedom can
only be maintained when the people are widely read, virtuous, and willing to
voluntarily sacrifice to maintain their freedoms.
Only independent thinking in
the citizenry can keep a society independent.
The framers also argued that good auxiliary precautions
could keep a society from losing it's freedoms long enough for the people to
realize the need for change and get back to reading, virtue, voluntarism and
independent thinking.
Auxiliary precautions include things like frequent
elections, separation of powers, checks, balances and other constitutional
limits on power.
It is the nature of power to centralize to one place, and
then to expand and try to control everything.
Auxiliary precautions keep power
from becoming too centralized long enough for the people to make sure their
freedoms are maintained.
Just like auxiliary power kicks in when the electricity goes
out, auxiliary precautions help a nation realize when its freedoms are in
jeopardy.
But the people must then take action.
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Social Leader Daily by Oliver DeMille
