A family-owned company is unleashing the largest fireworks display in history over Washington this Fourth of July, firing 850,000 shells in a private spectacle that puts government pageantry to shame. This achievement matters because it shows how free enterprise, not federal grants or bureaucrats, delivers the boldest expressions of national pride on our most important civic holiday. It exposes the hollowness of claims that only expanded state power can foster unity or celebration. The Constitution's design of limited government and free markets deliberately left room for such voluntary, family-driven efforts rather than conscripting them under regulatory control. Federalism reinforces this by keeping patriotic traditions grounded in private initiative and local spirit instead of top-down mandates from the capital. Original understanding of the founding leaves no room for the administrative state to insert itself as the sole steward of American liberty. Private excellence like this keeps the Republic's flame alive.