America’s Founding Fathers believed that the most important of the unalienable rights are the right to life, the right to liberty (which is being eroded by huge government and its unelected bureaucracies) and the right to pursue whatever course of life a person may desire in search of happiness, so long as it does not impinge upon the inherent rights of others.

In order to maintain those rights, the country must avoid tyranny — where an entity such as the federal government wields all the power over the people.

This country is losing the balance the Constitution laid out to an overzealous government.

I believe Republican candidates, including Shawn Moody, Eric Brakey, Bruce Poliquin and Mark Holbrook, are the best choice for voters if this nation is to move back toward that balance laid out in the Constitution.

Jon Kirsch, Lisbon Falls