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It was the opinion of the court.Again, that is opinion. The constitution was designed to limit the authority of the federal government over the states.What makes you so sure? One persons dislike of the design, doesn’t mean that it was designed in error.There is very little present in the totality of our current government, that represents the founders vision for our nation. For most the Constitution is but an interesting footnote in the development of our nation. Many even believe there is more work to do, in order to design a nation that fulfills their own political desires.
There have been substantial changes to our constitution in that time. The constitution had huge mistakes that we've had to correct...sometimes at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives.
For example....the Bill of Rights never applied to the States as envisioned by the Founders. Which was a colossal fuck up on the part of the founders.
Because they made assumptions that were inaccurate. For example, in refusing to apply the bill of rights to the States they assumed that the States would preserve the rights of its people.
The founders were wrong. As Barron v. Baltimore demonstrated elegantly. And Jim Crow. And many, many other examples. The States violate rights constantly. The founders were quite simply wrong.
No, that's the explicit findings of the US Supreme Court. They found that while Baltimore had clearly violated the rights of Barron.....they could do nothing about it as the federal courts weren't empowered to apply the Bill of Rights to the State of Maryland.
The assumptions of the founders, that the States would preserve the rights of the people, was found to be factually inaccurate by the Supreme Court.
And it is these inaccurate assumptions that render the founders judgment flawed and in need of correction. Which, of course, we did.