I enjoyed your article.
The one thing I rarely hear talked about regarding the Framers is their understanding of human nature. They understood - better than anything else - that ALL governments made up of men tended toward despotism. That the craven can find power in the law and bend it to their will.
That’s why the Constitution describes what the Government CAN’T do, rather than what it can do.
In your article you talk about the change from Newton (agrarian) to Darwin (Industrial) and now Information Age.
But through all that time the nature of governments of men to tend toward despotism has not changed. That’s why the original intent of the Constitution should be all that matters.
Until the nature of man changes, the Constitution should remain as written.
I would have to disagree with that. Perhaps some of the amendments do, but they are far from the complete Constitution.
Article 1, Section 8 is a complete list of what the congress is authorized to make laws about. Those enumerated items, and nothing else, may they regulate.
That was avoided by the feds by twisting the 'commerce' clause and the 'general welfare' clause.
The founders writings made it very clear that the only powers the federal government were allowed were spelled out in the Constitution.
/johnny