Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28169398-20180126031348/@comment-28169398-20180128154957

120.20.191.254 wrote: The constitution as drafted by the founding fathers was to LIMIT the powers of government, not to EXPAND them.

The Constitution was drafted to prevent against Monarchy and the Governance without representation. It never intended to limit governance, just to have it representative and dispersed over different branches which had their own powers to check the other. It also decentralized governance and required State ratification of any changes to the rules of The Constitution and under the 10th Amendment gave States and the people any powers of government not expressly granted or denied in the Constitution, which makes sense in 18th Century America, where communications technology had not been invented and travel was dangerous and lengthy. The 14th and 15th Amendments curtailed some of the rights and powers of the States and made them more beholden to The Constitution and the rule of law provided by the Federal government, being a reaction to The Civil War.