Thomas Jefferson Warned Us of This Day.

The article contends that Thomas Jefferson, one of the Founding Fathers of the U.S., warned when he wrote in his Preamble to "Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge" in 1778 that the constitutional ideal would be corrupted by those in power. It suggests that the U.S. is at the precise point in history facing an onerous, right-depriving government. The article also observes the growth of unrepresentative government through independent regulatory agencies that begat "self capture."