The founders were straightforward that the inherent rights system and the concept of freedom itself were only for a moral populace and that an immoral populace would destroy freedom because it would demand tyranny.

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

John Adams

The founders were straightforward that the inherent rights system and the concept of freedom itself were only for a moral populace and that an immoral populace would destroy freedom because it would demand tyranny.