How Do You Know?

Experience hath shewn,
that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and
by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most
effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable,
the minds of the people at large.

Thomas Jefferson, 1778



Our nation was founded on the idea that power is vested in the
people