But I am troubled by some of what seems to be on the agenda for the march this Saturday. Most references on the website for the march still speak in terms of lower taxation and individual fights on legislation as it appears in the Congress.

These are critical battles, of course and we must stay ever vigilant against the sneaks in the power grid in DC.

But, to my mind, there is an even more important aspect to this struggle. The restoration of the Constitution as originally written and interpreted in 1787 is the ONLY issue that will solve all problems at once. Whether it is taxes, spending, growth of government into areas where it doesn’t belong, the solution to all is strict “originalism.”

Alexis De Toqueville said “For every man hacking away at the root of a problem, there are a hundred hacking away at the branches.”

The branches are the individual issues we fight. The root of every problem is the twisting and ignoring of delegated powers.

We must begin to make arguments that do not speak in terms of adversarial legislative issues (politics) and begin to focus on a restoration of the one issue that overides and underlies every other one, the glorious simplicity of the concepts of the Constitution (philosophy).

Limited power. Separation of powers. State power versus Federal power. These are the issues we must sell to the American public to gain the consensus needed to revive the spirit of the founders and restore the Constitutional Republic.

I hope we will be able to train ourselves to become salesmen for the founders and not just advocates or opponents of lower taxes, this bill or that “reform”.

We must sell the ideas of the founders, not just to the politicians, but to the American people. To quote Samuel Adams, we must become the “irate, tireless minority keen to set brushfires in men’s minds”.