Defending the U.S. Constitution: Debunking Claims of Bias and Upholding Individual Rights

Together, these elements demonstrate the founders' intent to create a government that derives its authority from the consent of the governed, allowing for self-governance and the protection of individual freedoms.  This is firmly established by the clear language of the 10th Amendment, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

This then is the Great American Experiment: can the American people govern themselves, preserve their rights and freedoms and keep the power of government in check and balance?