The idea of a living breathing documents sounds good. After all, there were no internet in 1776.

Remember the first sentence? “We, the people of the United States.. do order and establish this Constitution for the United States of America”. And the means that what the people established should only be amended by he people and it is not a a dime a dozen judge to remake it. It is called democracy aka government of the people and it also about rule of law ie judges must rule according to the law not according to their arbitrary sympathies.

If these two clauses go, so does the right of half of the federal government to exist. Interpretation of these clauses has allowed massive growth and oversight of activities which are supposed to be regulated at the state level.

Let’s say you own a farm in Kansas, and you grow wheat, but only feed your family and livestock with it. Despite the fact that none of the wheat crosses state lines, it still counts as a federal level activity.

Why? The supreme court has interpreted that since you didn’t buy the wheat from the national market, you affected wheat sales “beyond state borders”, and therefore your local growing has national impact. So, that being the case, you fall under federal jurisdiction.

Why do this? Because it allows and end run on the constitutional amendment about “all other powers are vested with the states”.

As more and more activities fall under federal authority, the balance of power shifts away from states, and we essentially have one big federal state with 50 state-sized counties.

If we removed the authority of congress over interstate commerce, many of these agencies would lose their authority and power over our everyday lives would shift back to the state level – where it belongs.

Normally, the court tosses out laws that go against the constitution, but that has not been the case lately. Once the supreme court (a conservative supreme court I might add) is infected with this disease (and it has), we are lost. How can you steer back to sanity when the when the steering wheel breaks off in your hands?

‘When I use a word,’ Orin Hatch said, in a rather scornful tone,’ it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.’

‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things – especially the same word in two parts of the same document.’

‘The question is,’ said Senator Hatch, ‘which is to be master – that’s all.’