"Live free or die" Great sound bite. We are all united in our quest to "live free or die". But it's a lot more complicated when you dig in. Ask around and you will get a lot of versions of what that means. One persons right to " live free" and do as they please can and often does bump up against someone else's right to do the same. It's been that way since the beginning of time. Sometimes these differences were settled with compromise sometimes with violence (might makes right). So fast forward to the beginning of our own country. Started by people unhappy with the way things were being done in their country decided to hit the reset button to start their own country and change a few things that particularly irked them about there old country. In the preamble it says " form a more perfect union". That shows the leaders at the time had no delusions of forming a "perfect" union. They knew that a government could not be everything for everyone all the time. It's a balancing act that depending on where you stand can appear to be tipped in one direction or the other.
