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Discriminatory Original Intent: The Inevitable Demise Of America's Limited Government, Sharonda Lanise Johnson

Helm's School of Government Conference - American Revival: Citizenship & Virtue

In his book Crisis and Leviathan, author Robert Higgs identifies the single most significant change to constitutional order from “original intent” to the present public policy status in the United States as the “decline of the commitment to limited government” (Higgs 2012, 4). One of the original cornerstones of constitutional order, the doctrine of limited government seemingly establishes a truth of this nation that “our Founders established this government with both a strong dependence upon religious principles and a clear limitation on federal powers” (Barton 2008, 337). However, another paradoxical truth of this nation is that our Founders were …