Structures Against Tyranny

Freedom, left undefended, is fleeting.

The Founders knew that even a well-intended government

can devolve into domination—

if power is unchecked, or too easily seized.

So they built a government with internal limits.

A system of divided branches,

each with separate powers,

each capable of resisting the others.

This was not an accident.

It was an act of philosophical realism.

They did not trust ambition—

They tried to contain it.

They did not design perfection—

They designed resistance.

That is why the Constitution is not a blueprint for control,

but a framework for balance.

A republic, not of angels,

but of fallible humans who must be restrained

by structure, by process, and by the rule of law.