Restore Article I, the framers’ intent of balanced government

As a farmer and a student of American history, few things are as satisfying as wrapping up the last few weeks’ harvest at my family’s hop farm in Central Washington.

Thomas Jefferson once wrote to John Adams in 1787: “I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.”

While I admit some bias, I tend to agree. 240 years into the experiment of American democracy, we enjoy the fruition of the efforts of citizen farmers such as Jefferson and Adams, who played prominent roles in founding the United States by planting the seeds of our nation’s...