The Founders thought that the greatest effort in relief of poverty in human history is the building of a free republic, protecting equally the right to property and resting on consent through a free Constitution. They thought that this would give rise to a system of local government, run mainly by volunteers, that would be involved in every kind of relief of the needy. They thought that churches and other philanthropies would flourish in aid of those who fell behind. They thought that people would grow in the strength and practice of self-government to be as good as people can be. They thought that universal education, run like every other matter of domestic administration—without bureaucracy or central control—would help to provide the ideal of the first free nation on earth. Lincoln, a great student of the Revolution, would call this “an open field and a fair chance” for all.
Larry P. Arnn, The Founders’ Key, pg. 63
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