Our Founders wanted a limited Government constrained by the Constitution. But if our elected Representatives refuse to even talk about the Constitution’s limitations upon them, how can it be limited?
For about 150 years after the Founding, many political controversies at the federal level were apt to begin with debate about constitutional principle: Did the federal government’s enumerated powers entitle it to act on a particular subject? Only after this debate came the policy discussion. Today, almost nobody in either the legislature or executive branch believes that there is any subject, any sphere, from which the federal government is constitutionally excluded.
-George Will (The Conservative Sensibility)
That last sentence tells us WHY our country is in the peril it is in.
Without the Limiting Principle in the minds of legislators at all times, We the People will continue to suffer. And because our Education system no longer teaches proper Civics, voters will never realize that there IS a problem?
Quoting “promote the general welfare” from the Preamble is a useful dodge for snivelers committed to repeated acts of malfeasance; ignoring that there is a law or a power in America bigger than they are, knowing few if any will have the knowledge to challenge them on it.
