Walter E. Williams Quote

"The War between the States...produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day. Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. ... [The War] also laid to rest the great principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed'."

By:	Walter E. Williams (more quotes by Walter E. Williams or books by/about Walter E. Williams)
	(1936-2020) Columnist, Professor of Economics at George Mason University
Categories:	America, Autocracy, Black, Constitution, Democracy, Independence, Republic, War
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