no is sufficiently disturbing us to cause us to realize we have a problem and it's a problem that hearkance back to an earlier time in our nation's history. an earlier time a couple centuries ago when americans started expressing concern about a distant powerful national government. not based in washington, d.c. because it didn't exist then. this was then part of maryland. but a government based in london. and that distant powerful national government taxed us too much and regulated us too heavily. it didn't respect that american principle of local self-rule. you know, the idea that people govern themselves better than government does. and, where government is necessary, most government decisions are generally made better at the local level than the national level. and this national level was so far from the people that it was slow to respond to their needs, even when it did respond. so the people came to an understanding that feels somewhat familiar to us. that national governance by their very nature do have a certain tendency toward tyranny. they have a tendency to become tyrants ultimat