Other Founders notably James Madison, the father of the Constitution were more concerned with power than with virtue.

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The Father of the Constitution did not, unfortunately, foresee that the panoply of structural barriers the Founders had erected against power-grasping officials would prove so ineffective, allowing the national government to be transformed from one of limited, enumerated powers into one of virtually unlimited, implicit, un-enumerated powers.

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Both Jefferson and James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, also knew that their government would never fear a people without guns, and they understood as well that the greatest threat to liberty was not foreign invasion or domestic unrest but rather a standing army and a militarized police force without fear of the people and capable of inflicting tyranny upon the people.

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