Is America Today Our Forefathers' Vision?

*Editor's Note: Anthony Campbell won the local Voice of Democracy contest. We have reprinted his entry here for our readers.*

Our forefathers' vision of America is not exactly how it is today. When writing on the importance of law in the United States, Founding Father James Wilson stated, “Without liberty, law loses its nature and name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” This principle still holds today, especially as liberty has been questioned recently. Liberty was a founding idea of this nation, and even if our natio...