Kevin_Kennedy
Defend Liberty
- Aug 27, 2008
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Your view is exactly why the Constitution keeps getting violated. Because you are willing to simply give up.
The entire PURPOSE of the Document to was to LIMIT Federal Power. We need to be more aggressive on our demands that the Courts and Congress over turn illegal laws and regulations.
You just want to give up.
No, I want to return to a document that actually limited government: the Articles of Confederation.
The purpose of the Constitution was to increase federal power from what they had under the Articles. Alexander Hamilton kept talking about how we need an "energetic" government. If its purpose was to limit the federal government then there was no reason to get rid of the Articles in the first place, which were much more successful in limiting the government.
The Constitution keeps getting violated because it's useless at limiting the federal government. It gives the federal government too much power in the first place to be any kind of effective check on that power.