A group called the Minutemen had already been founded, insisting it was their patriotic duty to protect the border themselves in the absence of state intervention.
When backed by state power, it can lead to murder and mayhem, which is why our founding fathers insisted on the separation of church and state.
The bailout package has raised a host of technical as well as political issues for the euro area, because the euro's founding treaties insisted that no such step could be taken.
If you set up the apparatus for a police state, it is only a matter of time before it is used; that's why our Founding Fathers insisted on checks and balances, division of powers, and provisions like the Fourth Amendment.
Black and Sexy TV's web series The Couple has been picked up by HBO, though the founding team insists this wasn't their main goal.
PETER SKURKISS Stow, Ohio, July 25 , 2012To the Editor: It is hard to avoid the real meaning of the text of the Second Amendment to the Constitution: The founding fathers were insisting on an inexorable connection between the right to bear arms and participation in a "well-regulated" military organization.
Yet the retail behemoth refuses to add an environmentalist to its board of directors, insisting the founding Walton family's billionaire patriarch's philanthropy qualifies him as an expert.
Nearly 40 years after he co-founded Chrysalis, Wright insists there is still "a lot of unfinished business".
In the library of Simmons & Co., the Houston investment bank he founded 40 years ago, he insists we've already passed Peak Oil but the world won't realize it until economic recovery stimulates oil thirst anew.
Founding fathers who insisted that the mass of Americans were "without property and without principle" may sound hopelessly backward to our more egalitarian ears.
