Article VI, Not Article V
Concerned that the central government created by the Constitution was venturing beyond the powers given it by the Constitution of the United States, Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1798, “In questions of power … let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
One would think that all Americans today would nod in hearty agreement with Jefferson, who penned the inspiring words of the Declaration of Independence setting forth the theory of government upon which our Constitution is based. Unfortunately, that is not the case, because there are some who wish to perform the very “mischief” would-be tyrants know that Constitution is designed to prevent.
We know that the Founders did not authorize the government that we now have, in practice, but intended to create a government with specific limitations on its powers. Even those on the Left surely know that the Constitution’s Framers did not intend to create a government that could usurp authority from the states, control the minutia of our lives, and force a radical social agenda on the people.
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