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The Constitution: Why It Was Designed to Limit Power
When Americans think about the United States Constitution, they often focus on the rights it protects. Equally important, however, is what the Constitution restrains. From its very beginning, the Constitution was deliberately designed to limit power—not because the founders distrusted government entirely, but because they understood human nature well enough to know that unchecked power…
