But if that set of powers includes everything you do (see Wickard and Raich), and everything you don’t do (what Obamacare proponents are advocating here), what’s the point in having a Constitution at all?
The rest is here.
There is a giant cross-section of conservatives and libertarians who argue that everything would be just peachy if we just obeyed the Constitution. The problem is, the Constitution has been here all along; it is obviously part of the problem, not the solution. Officials use it to justify their behavior and to bother others. They never apply it to themselves. There is a clear weakness to the document, one which might be ameliorated a bit if states started nullifying vast numbers of federal laws, and were willing to use force to protect their citizens, but it is patently obvious the existence of the document does nothing to protect us.
Indeed, it seems we, the people, are expected to hold to it, while they, the political class, do whatever it is that they want. It is high time to say they've broken that contract. The leviathan overlooking the Potomac is more of a tyrant than King George III ever was. We must stop pretending anything that they do is legitimate.
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