I don't see a way to stop the growing government at this point. Well there is a way, the same way we stopped the British Crown.
As a country, we have fallen so far away from what the founding fathers expected. If they saw the size and scope of the current federal government, they would take up arms again, all the while chastising us for letting it get so out-of-hand. FDR would have been run out of town on a rail, along with Lincoln, and most presidents from about 1840 on.
What they put into the Constitution was so simple and clear, I really can't understand why it's become so muddied.
Simple and clear are beautiful words that most dismiss as ignorance and stupidity, as they do not allow for the prattling of the "intellectual elite" to use 15 letter words, that most have never heard of, in 10,000 word commentaries, that once uttered, render said rhetoric ineffective, as they fail to corroborate the essence of their thesis. I think ;*)
I really can't understand why it's become so muddied.
All the better to "alter" the original intent such as those posted in #46.