Is the regime established in the Constitution today a help or a hindrance to defenders of individual liberty? The Constitution is seen by some as facilitating oppression by not adequately protecting us from those forces – those institutions within society that ignore us or seek to devalue us.  Others see it not as facilitating oppression, but as too weak to stop oppression by the government it should control. In this essay, I hope to make a modest defense of the Constitution’s relationship with liberty and make the case that liberty is the Constitution’s purpose. To do so, I turn to parts of the Constitution less studied on this matter – specifically, the Constitution’s theory of separation of powers, a fuller picture of which will show in part liberty’s relationship with the Constitution. But first, we note that the Preamble to the Constitution famously concludes the list of that document’s goals as “to secure the...(Read Full Article)