The Challenge to the Youth of Today

- 5 - secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America." We must remember that originally it was primarily a grant of power to the government from the people, and the much discussed and universally approved bill of rights provides no affirmative guarantees of personal liberty but does specifically curtail the right of the government to limit individual liberty. Amendment ten is specific and reads:- "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Con- stitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” Since our government was organized to "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,” we might consider