During this election period we might do well to reread “The Political Principles of Robert A. Taft,” by Russell Kirk and James McClellan. Ron Paul's attempts to teach democratic principles resemble Taft's battles to restore federalism, the separation of powers, and the Bill of Rights.
The framers of the Constitution clearly knew that every democracy in history finally degenerated into tyranny, an empire or a kingdom. Listen to this 1946 quote from Taft: “We have fooled ourselves in the belief that we could teach another nation democratic principles by force. Why, we can't even teach our own people sound principles of government.”
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