I pretty much agree with what your saying here.  However to get back to a limited form of government as you speak of, our kids would need to be taught British history, and not American history.   Its the only way they will truly understand why kingdoms and democracies are bad, and only through a new generation of liberty minded persons will we ever reach that pinnacle.   As to how things are today, if for example I went  around telling people  that no Americans died during our American Revolutionary war, or why it would have been absurd for Paul Revere to say, "The British are coming,"  I would most likely be locked up in a looney bin.   But that is what happens when real history is shoved beneath the rug.