The genius undergirding the Ten Commandments lies in its definition of individual behavior. When the individual behaves properly, both he and his society prosper. Similarly, the Founding Fathers' concept of liberty was based in large part upon the rights of the individual to own and manage his or her personal property and enjoy the fruits of his own genius and labor.
Enter Woodrow Wilson and other self-professed "intellectuals" of the time. They felt that society's welfare should trump the rights granted to the individual via the Constitution. Under the guise of forced societal goodness, communism, fascism, European socialism and various wealth redistribution plans have arisen — and failed.
Aristotle warns that the tyranny of the masses is the Achilles' heel of all democracies.
Frank Gardiner
Provo