[thecavemaster]

We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice....

Is it your position, Hoot, that the original intent of the Framers, many of them slave owners, was to end slavery as a principle of "establish justice"? That they intended to extend to women the right to vote, as a matter of "establish justice"? You and I, Hoot, are having a fundamental disagreement often about the very nature of federalism as opposed to state's rights. I think you're on the wrong side of history... which isn't calling you a racist or a misogynist or any such. Your cautionary tales of an increasingly totalitarian government, while bloated with a hack's bias, serve a useful purpose in our republic; however, I do think you're on the wrong side of history.