“In a speech last month about proposed gun control legislation, President Obama decried opponents’ attempts to encourage ‘suspicion about government.’ ‘The government’s us,’ he responded. ‘These officials are elected by you. They are constrained as I am constrained, by a system that our founders put in place.’ But if government were ‘us,’ why would we have ever needed a Bill of Rights or defense attorneys? In order for the government to be ‘us,’ and for its elected officials to be our ‘representatives’ in any meaningful sense, a number of prerequisites would have to be met.”
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