This is a great diatribe and all, but it totally ignores the fact that it's not 1787 anymore, and we've changed as a country--including changing the Constitutio

This is a great diatribe and all, but it totally ignores the fact that it's not 1787 anymore, and we've changed as a country--including changing the Constitution. Change, I should note, the drafters intended for us to make and continue to make as our circumstances changed, as technology changed, as knowledge changed, and as society changed. I won't get into debates about the Interstate Commerce Clause or anything like that. It's more fundamental. We're not the same country we were just out of the Articles of Confederation. If you lined up the 39 people who signed the document, or the 56 people who signed the Declaration of Independence and told them that after 250-odd years we were trying to live exactly to the standard they set without any progress or changes, they would consider the experiment failed.