I spend a great deal of time reading what our founders actually had to say about liberty, and the proper role of government.  I do not read what historians tell me the founders thought, mostly because I have learned those historians do not know.  Instead, I like to read what the founders actually had to say about things.  It is how I came to understand that very, very few of us in our society agree with them on much of anything.  For example, I ask you to consider what Benjamin Franklin had to say about ‘Freedom of the Press,’ then think about what his words have to say about our media today:

“If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty…