The Republican debates inspired me to take a second look at the Bill of Rights. And I tell you—our farsighted Founding Fathers knew what they were doing.

It was a good night for the redressing of grievances—the candidates all brimmed with grievances they swore they’d redress the moment they arrived in the White House—but everything else took a beating. Speech, religion, assembly. . . As for the press, among Republican candidates its perfidy has always gone without saying. Who was it Fiorina wanted to take our government back from? “From the political class, from the media, from the liberal elite,” she said. “It can be done, it must be done.”