I don't always agree with the Murray Rothbard, the late libertarian-atheist-Thomist-natural law political philosopher. [The last two are a weird fit with the first two. "Thomist" refers to Thomas Aquinas, a Roman Catholic saint.]
But Rothbard never fails to delight, and I think he nails the Founding's understanding of what they were ratifying:
“And finally, does anyone seriously believe for one minute that any of the 13 states would have ratified the Constitution had they believed that it was a perpetual one-way Venus fly trap – a one-way ticket to sovereign suicide? The Constitution was barely ratified as it is!”
[From an essay on "Just War," also a recent topic here at American Creation.]
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