Like Psychoanalysis, Constitutional Jurisprudence Has Become A

Mass Democracy Guarantees Stupidity. Masses Of People, Even If They're Individually Intelligent, Can Only Act Stupidly.

Tyranny May Creep In Under The Outward Forms Of Traditional Law.

Because The State Can No Longer Protect Us From Crime, It Wants To Take Away From Us The Means Of Protecting Ourselves. This Is The Logic Of Gun Control.

We Have Been Living Amidst One Of The Great Revolutions Of Human History, And We Hardly Know It: The Penetration Of The State Into Every Aspect Of Human Life And Society. Some People Regard This As Good And "progressive," Others Regard It As Tyrannical; But Either Way, It's A Fact, A Transformation As Great As, Say, The Industrial Revolution. Absolutely Nothing Is Now Beyond The Scope Of State Power.

By Today's Standards King George Iii Was A Very Mild Tyrant Indeed. He Taxed His American Colonists At A Rate Of Only Pennies Per Annum. His Actual Impact On Their Personal Lives Was Trivial. He Had Arbitrary Power Over Them In Law And In Principle But In Fact It Was Seldom Exercised. If You Compare His Rule With That Of Today's U.s. Government You Have To Wonder Why We Celebrate Our Independence.