{"id":32685,"date":"2020-10-20T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32685"},"modified":"2020-10-20T18:35:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T22:35:41","slug":"dr-ron-paul-could-not-have-said-it-better-when-he-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32685","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dr. Ron Paul could not have said it better when he said&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\n\u201c<strong>Our founders sought to establish the weakest possible federal government capable of performing its essential functions, for three fundamental and intertwined reasons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, government is inherently dangerous, so the less power it has, the better.<\/li>\n<li>Second, the states &#8211; being closer to the people and more responsive to regional differences and needs &#8211; are better equipped to handle most matters than a far-off centralized administration.<\/li>\n<li>Third, the states were prior to the federal government; the people, through their states, created the latter to serve them, not the other way around.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The preceding excerpt was taken from: <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/america-point-no-return\">America at the Point of No Return<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/america-point-no-return\">https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/america-point-no-return<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}