Topic: The Founding Fathers
“When the Founders spoke of “pursuit of Happiness,” what they meant might be understood today as in essence “pursuit of Blessedness.” That is, an individual must be free to live as his Creator ordained—to flourish. Our Constitution grants each of us the liberty to do not what we want, but what we ought. This pursuit of the good life is found primarily in family—marriage, children, Thanksgiving dinners, and the like.”
One interpretation of this is that he (and by extent, the authors of Project 2025), wish to dictate what it is we “ought” – that is, have families and children. He goes on to say that the government resents that we (Americans) don’t want to be told how to live (I agree), but then tacitly supports the government dictating how people should live.
Full contextual analysis of the foreword here.
“In Federalist No. 47, James Madison warned that “[t]he accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
This statement has all of the self-awareness of a dog licking its own ass in public, to quote popular commentator Jim Wright. Concentrating the power behind only the President, as Vought is arguing for, is the very definition of “accumulating all powers in the hands of one”, which as he admits it follows, would be the “definition of tyranny”.
Full contextual analysis of Section 1.2: Executive Office of the President of the United States here.
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