Posted on 08/19/2025 6:40:22 AM PDT by Starman417
Our Constitution, perhaps the greatest document in human history behind the Bible, is not quite perfect. In 2025, we can see things that might have been added. Number one is probably term limits. Another would be a prohibition on deficit spending outside of war. And maybe they could have added something about judges being responsible for the crimes the criminals they release into society commit…
No doubt there are countless things we could sit here 250 years later and think of that the Founding Fathers could have added, but didn’t because they couldn’t see into the future. One thing they could see clearly was that the nature of man is to accumulate power, use that power to take from others, and that the most effective way of doing both is by harnessing the power of government.
Alas, it wasn’t possible to put frameworks in place to control all of the base instincts of men, as they are simply unending and evolve constantly. The Founders could not envision our world. They could write about freedom of speech and the press, but they couldn’t have known about radio or mobile phones or the dark web or Bitcoin or shadowbanning.
Nonetheless, one of the greatest attributes of their Constitution was its staggered terms. The House, the place from which spending originates, is the closest to the people and is elected every two years. The President, who executes the laws, has a term of four years. Then the Senate, originally the representatives of the state legislatures, serve staggered six-year terms.
The goal of these staggered terms was to tamp down the passions of men such that if a majority wanted something, they couldn’t easily command it, and it would take years for them to take control over the government. The Founders understood that tempers run hot, but cooler heads often prevail with time and therefore they wrote a document with built in cooling off periods.
What the Founding Fathers never envisioned, however, was a permanent government, in either the elected officials or the bureaucracy. Sadly, today we have both. That wouldn’t be a significant problem if the government was as small as it was initially. Indeed, for America’s first 50 years, we had a Department of State, Treasury, War, Attorney General, and Postmaster General. That was it. Interior and Agriculture came in the middle of the 19th century when the country was adding states and territories rapidly, and farming was becoming a major point of conflict between cattle herders, sheep herders, farmers, and miners, not to mention Indians. Nothing more until the Department of Commerce and Labor in 1903 – the two split in 1913.
The point is, for most of the first half of America’s history, the federal government was essentially an afterthought in the minds of most Americans. For the Founding Fathers, government was part-time. Today it’s anything but. To put this in perspective, there have been almost 2,000 people who have served as a US Senator, and of the 25 who served the longest, all but one started his career in the 20th century – 15 of them after 1960 – and two are still there! Similarly, over in the House, where 12,000 people have served as Representatives, of the 33 longest serving, all but one began their service in the 20th century and four are current members. The Founding Fathers didn’t see a need for term limits because for them, Congress was a service to the country, not a job, and certainly not a permanent career.
Today, the federal government is anything but an afterthought in the lives of Americans. Not only does it seek to control almost every aspect of our lives, but it spends like a drunken sailor on liberty weekend. Not surprisingly, most of the regulations that stifle productivity and innovation and the departments from which most spending emerges, are those created in the last century. Seventy-five percent of the federal government spending is on things that simply exist at the federal level for our first 150 years. From healthcare spending to food stamps to Social Security to education, the limited government our Founding Fathers left us with has metastasized into a borg that grows year after year, regardless of who’s in control.
This does not end well, particularly as the United States is $37 trillion in debt, with twice that in unfunded obligations. The words of Scottish historian Alexander Fraser Tytler explain why: “A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”
On our present course, that is America’s fate. Sadly, we have few leaders willing to tell Americans the truth about that reality. While we have men like Rand Paul and Thomas Massie, Americans writ large don’t seem to be interested in following them.
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The Founding Fathers fully realized this and that is the reason they gave us a way to change The Constitution. It's hard, and it's hard on purpose to keep every willy-nilly goofy (Democrat) idea from becoming a part of the Constitution.
“No Person born in the State of Pennsylvania shall be eligible to the Office of President or Vice President” would have been a good idea in hindsight...but since they were meeting in Philadelphia no one thought of that.
And Islam is not compatible with the US Constitution.
And judges not having lifetime appointments, and along that vein, limits on upper age served. If you can be too young to serve, you can be too old to serve.
The Constitution was designed to channel change through structure—not through ideological improvisation. The original ten amendments embody that principle. Later additions, while sometimes noble in intent, have often manipulated the Constitution’s clarity, equity, and restraint.
That would be good but for election fraud.
If you want to repeal the 17th Amendment, I have a better idea.
Just vote to alter it.
17th Amendment: The person known as Lazamataz on FreeRepublic.com, and Laz A. Mataz elsewhere on the internet, shall hereby be granted the right to decide who lives and who dies. This shall be an absolute right, not challengeable in the courts. So it is written, so it shall be done. Amen.
The Founding Fathers never contemplated the invention of central air conditioning. Prior to a/c, Congress completed their business in May, before the weather turned muggy.
I’m actually not a fan of term limits. That is a two-edged sword. The only term limits should be elections.
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Then the rigging of elections becomes a paramount importance for the creation of a career politician class of Swamp that never drains.
Then address election rigging. That’s going to happen whether we have term limits or not.
I hope you kill all the right people. A lot of people need killing.
Life spans were shorter back in those days, too.
Thank you!! :-)
They figured that would lead to things just working themselves out naturally.
Then some smarty pants came up with quinine, someone else invented air conditioning, their power and pay were both expanded and lobbying firms were invented.
It was all down hill from there.
Then address election rigging. That’s going to happen whether we have term limits or not.
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Is that addressed at the DC Swamp level or at the 50 State Swamps level, or both Swamp levels?
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What the Constitution Didn’t Say - and Why It Matters Now
As a side note to this thread, please consider the following.
In stark contrast to the people now being oppressed under the boots of the post-16th Amendment ratification (16A; direct taxes), full-time, unconstitutionally big federal government, the Constitution's drafters required the constitutionally limited power (hint) Congress to meet only ONCE A YEAR.
Article I, Section 4, Clause 2: The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year [emphasis added], and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day.
After all, one of the very few MAIN powers that the states have expressly constitutionally given the peacetime federal government to is to deliver the mail, most federal domestic spending now based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated state revenues (peoples' wallets), such revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes that cannot reasonably be justified under Congress's constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
It is one of a few government agencies explicitly authorized by the Constitution of the United States. (non-FR)
10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States. —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen [all emphases added], under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country. —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]. —United States v. Butler, 1936.
That being said, Trump's red tsunami of supporters, evidenced by his record-breaking win in 2024 elections, need to permanently preserve his legacy by making the repeal of 16A the main talking point of 2026 elections. Trump supporters need to primary all candidates for state and federal public offices who refuse to publicly promise to support a resolution to the states in January 2027 for a new amendment to the Constitution that repeals that amendment.
The Sixteenth Amendment is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for organized crime front-ended by deep state Congress.
Consider that a resolution to repeal 16A was introduced as recently as 2021, but was unsurprisingly ignored.
The 17th Amendment, popular voting for federal senators, needs to disappear too.
Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature. —Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
“Another would be a prohibition on deficit spending “
That would make the tax rate 70%!
Except that people say that no matter what solution is offered.
It rings hollow now.
-PJ
Well, no doubt some districts the vote is genuine but after seeing bow the democrats are known to manipulate through counting illegals, gerrymandering, counting and recounting a secure win (happened in a neighboring district in NY where the republican won by 80,000 votes and the democrats kept demanding a recount cause they kept *finding* votes, until their guy was ahead by a few hundred, then they declared the election finalized and got a House seat.), states with completely red state governance who *elect* democrat federal reps by only a few thousand votes (like NH), reports of voting machines changing votes, etc., well I believe that election fraud is a thing.
Oddly enough, the Confederate States did some editing of the constitution. Other than (obviously) incorporating slavery, but only in already slave states. They *also* made several other actually reasonable deletions and additions.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csa.asp
It’s worth a read. Enough so that it should be included in constitutional law classes.
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