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“No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not" employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.”

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Edmund A. Opitz

Edmund A. Opitz was a renowned author whose works spanned multiple genres, including science fiction, fantasy, and literary criticism. He lived from 1914 to 2006. more

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