Read the PDF. “Governments are instituted among men,” our Founders declared two and a half centuries ago, to secure the rights to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”—that is, to ensure public safety and security, defend political freedom, and foster economic prosperity. Today Americans enjoy a level of security, liberty, and prosperity that surpasses that possessed by any previous society in human history: not in Classical Athens, Imperial Rome, Dynastic China, or Victorian Britain was a people so safe, so free, so rich. We meet tonight to debate how to sustain this happy state, for we know that neither …read more
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
