Quote:I love it when politicians say "what our founding fathers would say."  To quote Joe Machi, they would say, "When did you start letting women vote?  Wait..  who is that in the White House?  Is that one of Thomas Jefferson's kids?"

 

No seriously..  Our founding fathers would say nothing to the politicians.  They would look at the general public and say, "How could you allow this to happen?" 

 

Quite right, things are very different than they were when the country was established, and for the better in most ways. The idea that we would even need to be burdened with never allowing the nation to grow past what is written in a document 225 years old is absurd.

 

The Senate originally was filled by appointment, not popular vote.

 

The constitution makes no allowance for an air force.

 

The constitution said a black person was 3/5ths of a person.

 

The constitution also said that the legislature has practically limitless power to expand the role of the federal government into whatever was needed to make it work for the General Welfare.

 

The idea that the 10th amendment in any was limits what the federal government can do through legislation is ignorance. The Constitution specifically allows the Federal Government to grow its role to whatever it needs, the 10th amendment only applies to whatever the legislative branch has yet to decide is a federal matter.

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