When we bitcoiners create the second iteration of the United States, or our children do, we must remember 4 things:

1) taxes should be highest at local level and lowest at federal level. Taxes should be highest to the politicians most responsive to local electorate. Costs of moving to nearest city much cheaper than moving countries; governments must compete for citizens and taxes and we need market power to reject taxes with our feet.

2) it’s not life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness…it should have been life, liberty, and property.

3) all governments are forbidden from confiscation without compensation and may not use ex post facto declarations of illegality to confiscate under criminal proceedings. Think of it like a statute of limitations applied to government: if they declare my rifle today to have never been legal, they can take it from me without compensation…this is a tactic our federal government uses to take things from citizens.

4) shall not be infringed means shall not be infringed. It is a fundamental human right to keep and bear any bearable arm that _can_ be used with selectivity in time and space (eg, you can’t have a nuclear weapon nor a small grenade that goes off at random…you’ve got to be able to use and practice with the arms without acutely harming others).