Purpose
by Lawrence H. Smith
To preserve freedom and for no other purpose the people of the United States created a
government under our Constitution.
They realized that no simple democracy
could long survive the lure of political demagogues leading to the dictator, and they deliberately limited the power of their government and divided it into three separate parts:
legislative, executive, and judicial.
This was intended to be a check on each
department so that no one of them might
become supreme:
The purpose of the Constitution was not to
convey rights to individual citizens, but to
specify the limitations imposed by free citizens on government.
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