Originally Posted by ManyBenz

Probably why the founders ordered the society as defined in the COTUS as limiting government as the core principle. There would be infinitely less influence available for purchase if the incessent growth of government could have been curtailed. Politicians can be bribed because they have thwarted the constitutional imperative to limit government and as a result the power they wield has great value. The founders in their wisdom foretold of this day and included in there prescription for an ordered society the ultimate fail-safe mechanism, the right to keep and bear arms, they knew it might come to the point where a tyranical government must be destroyed, they where correct.