This is the school of strict construction advocated by the original enemies of the US Constitution - the Anti-Federalists.
You may declare this personal opinion as if it were a fact all the livelong day, but the fact remains that the original interpreters of the US Constitution - the authors of The Federalist - argued that the Constitution is to be interpreted by the Framers' intent and not by some reductionist scheme.
Particularly the Tenth 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.”
The question is, of course, which powers are not delegated to the United States? The Constitution, of course, delegates to the United States the power to make and execute all laws necessary and proper for the carrying out of its Constitutional responsibilities to provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare.
But it appears that the clear wording of the Founders isn’t good enough for you, for some reason.
Oh it's quite sufficient. It's your falsified twisting of their words I object to, and your arbitrary insistence that the Constitution be interpreted according to the standards of its opponents rather than its advocates.
Pity. You and Ellen.
Apparently you are a reductionist when it comes to behaving like an adult as well.
“This is the school of strict construction advocated by the original enemies of the US Constitution - the Anti-Federalists.”
In other words, the Constitution means only what you want it to at the moment. The “living” document theory so popular with Nancy Pelosi and good old Ellen...