“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.”

As you know, there is a federal entity called the Environmental Protection Agency, which was formed ostensibly to protect our environment. Whatever that means. 

Using that department of government as a precedent, why don't we now form a federal entity called the Freedom Protection Agency, which would be charged with the responsibility of protecting our freedom? 

One of its powers, and the most important, would be to require every legislator and every public-agency employee intending to put any new law or rule into effect to first file a Freedom Impact Statement. This would be a document summarizing the likely effect that the proposed legislation or regulation would have on freedom within the jurisdiction involved. In it, the petitioner, if we may call him or her that, would be required to identify for the public those people whose freedom would be curtailed by the proposed law or rule and to what extent. Public hearings would be held at which all would have the right to air their concerns about the pending legislation or regulation. 

And so the Congress would not be able to pass laws increasing taxes, imposing tariffs, awarding subsidies, mandating social programs, increasing the minimum wage, and so on without first letting their constituents know the impact the proposed legislation is likely to have on their freedom. Non-elected officials would, of course, be in the same boat. On the local level, state, county, and city office-holders and bureaucrats would be similarly restrained.

After all, if the protection of our environment is sufficiently important to warrant the formation of a federal agency serving as a watchdog in that area, doesn't the protection of our freedom deserve at least equal time? 

Think about it.