Michael C. in Canada sent me the following statement by Rihard Cartwrite, a member of Canada’s Legislative Assembly, on March 9, 1865, discussing the kind of government Canada was to have (From a book entitled Canada’s Founding Debates, edited by William Gairdner et al): “I think that every true reformer, every friend of real liberty, will agree with me in saying that if we must erect safeguards, they should be rather for the security of the individual than of he mass, and that our chiefest care must be to train the majority to respect the rights of the minority, to … Continue reading Canada’s Founders Feared a Lincolnite Yankee Leviathan State