The previous week I agreed with the philosophy of originality and felt that the Founding Fathers had created a timeless structure for our government in the Constitution. They certainly did not expect the “modern government” we now have to surpass their carefully crafted Constitution. I believe they thought they had protected us and were right in their distrust of government and the loss of individual freedom that comes with its growth. The Founders' goal in the Constitution was to state their reasons for independence and show the choice of government they chose over unresponsive English big government (Pilon, page 259). Pilon further explains that the only reason to have a government is to maintain the rights it is required to protect. Our right to individual "pursuit of happiness" is perhaps our idea of ​​utopia. Kristol (Page 299) suggests that this crisis of modernity “will require new ideas – or new versions of old ideas.” We are guaranteed this right of individual prosecution in the Declaration of Independence - as long as our pursuit does not harm or impede the pursuit of another. . David Boaz (American Vision and Values, page 86) put it clearly: “Americans sought to devise a Constitution that would limit the government… to make it clear that the Constitution was not a general grant of power to the government…”. I believe Ronald Reagan spoke for all of us in his message to Washington, February 20, 2009 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAwAY0LH9hg&feature=lated) “Our Constitution is a document in which we, people, let's tell the government what it is allowed to do. We the people are free." The government appeared to maintain a path consistent with the Constitution until the period between 1890 and 1920, known as the Progressive Era. This era roughly coincided with Roosevelt's New Deal, but is not directly related. The creation of a “fourth branch” of government seemed to take shape with the administrative branch. The bureaucracy did not actually create another branch of government, but established agencies that were to oversee legislation and “give it broad governing power” (Pestritto, page 203). Machiavelli (The Prince, page 229) speaks at length using the term “Prince” to explain how to acquire and maintain political power: “It is therefore not necessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is absolutely necessary to appear to have them.