“Among the many objects to which a wise and free people find it necessary to direct their attention, that of providing for their safety seems to be the first.”

So wrote Publius, or John Jay, in Federalist 3. He made this point in appealing to those debating whether to ratify the Constitution that the new document would aid in the safety of the public from foreign and domestic threats. In making this point, the founders knew well the basic societal need that government fulfilled. Human beings possessed the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness from God. They were endowed with these rights, as the Declaration of Independence stated, in God’s act of creating us.

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