UNIVERSAL BADNESS: AMERICA'S FOUNDERS AND THE NATURE OF MAN
80% of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. (1) That belief may be proof of another current poll in which a majority opined that the government cannot be trusted. (2) “Some worry the government is doing too much, others say too little, and others mention the government doing the wrong things or nothing. Respondents also cite concerns about how money has corrupted it and how corporations control the political process.” The founders of America understood why government is untrustworthy and devised a ruling system based on that certainty. Our second president, John Adams, famously said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” J ohn Witherspoon wrote, “Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials
