Contrary to newspaper reports, Mayor Lange has not made any agreement with the Democratic Party to attempts to negotiate the Eastern border of the City. This good news however does not stop the progressives on City Council from effecting historic changes in City government that have negative consequences on the freedoms of every citizen in the community. Against Council woman Benker's progressive agenda stands the American Founders and the greatest statesmen who have always sharply distinguished between just and unjust - or between free and tyrannical forms of government. The Declaration of Independence does not proclaim that just government is merely less oppressive than unjust government - as if the American Republic and Nazi Germany were separated only by degrees of tyranny. Our ancestors thought republican governments, like Longmont's Charter were good because it is grounded in human nature and was operated by law and consent in affirmation of human liberty among the citizenship in Longmont. While our Founders were not uninterested in the question of the sum of power granted to government they were more interested in the kinds and distribution of powers that would be confirmed by the Constitution.

Separation was meant both to prevent the worst and to enable the best kind of government. It was designed to prevent tyranny by not allowing one or more branches to escape the law or to encroach on other branches. But it was also designed to allow each branch to perform its duty well so long as the purposes of government were kept to a few.

Our Charter's limited government, in the sense of constitutional government, is opposed to political assumptions of the modern state, which arose after the New Deal. See Article 2.5 ELECTIVE OFFICERS; The elective officers shall be seven Councilmen, one to be elected from each of the three wards, three to be elected from the City at large, and one to be elected from the City at large as Mayor. Elections shall be non-partisan. These assumptions came in the Charter largely from the political science of the Progressive era, whose proponents argued that freedom did not come from nature or God, but instead is a product of the state and is realized only in the modern state. Far from being the people's servant and, therefore, a possible threat to freedom, because servants can be unfaithful the state is the full ethical expression of a people. The state is the people and the people are the state is the progressive translation of the German concept of der Staat, or Woodrow Wilson's insistence that "living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. In short, the Democratic Party's intervening in Longmont affairs is not the limited Constitution & Charter of the Founders in action, but the living Constitution, which is the ideal of Progressives and modern liberal theory and practice.

The Progressive Bloc's non-recognition of any Constitution or Charter a priori limitation on their power to deal with your property rights, speech rights or even religious freedom, is absent the consent of the people. Absence of the people's consent sacrifices the people of Longmont's natural and Constitutional rights in order for the Progressive Bloc to achieve these new rights of self-fulfillment it craves..

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