“The same words yield vastly different responses based on who is doing the reading or listening. We can see this very clearly in the case of the US Constitution. This governing document was meant to limit the powers of government to only those that were relatively well-defined. Unfortunately, it has not been able to stand its ground. From either side of the aisle, the Federal Government is in the business of doing many things it rather explicitly cannot do based on a common-sense reading of the Constitution.”

“This is the problem with creating one central document meant to govern a whole massive country. It will, with the appropriate amount of time, always work to expand the scope of central authority. The US has gone from one of the smallest governments in history to now being the largest government in the history of the world by a number of metrics.”