The US constitution has been gutted and reconstructed multiple times. The idea it really constrains is a joke. Every seventy years or so there’s a massive chang

The US constitution has been gutted and reconstructed multiple times. The idea it really constrains is a joke. Every seventy years or so there’s a massive change in how things are actually run. The first change was the Constitution itself, taking over from the Articles of Confederation, the second when the states were rendered subordinate with the War On Idiots Who Wanted to Keep Slavery, the third the New Deal, when the Commerce Clause was rendered a joke, then the sixties with the extraordinary growth of the administrative state. The US Constitution can’t stop politicians from doing what they want. The Constitution doesn’t give the President the power to declare war unilaterally. They took it. Power is not restrained by paper, but by other power.