“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
–Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was a huge libertarian. As one of the most important Founding Fathers, he just might be history’s most important libertarian – except for the fact that a lot of the other Founding Fathers might have been about as libertarian as him.
The American government is set up for a system of checks and balances, most people know that. But how …