Imagine if the Founders had seen the size of today’s federal government and the trillions in debt. A little more foresight back then, and we’d be living in a completely different America.

“I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution: I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its Constitution. I mean an additional article, taking from the federal government the power of borrowing.”

— Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, November 26, 1816