[Bigun]

Impossible. "Restoring the limits" is like a baseball team that's losing 9-0 advocating "restoring the score" to its original limits. The system was set up and operated. 200 years of accrued power and precedent will not be undone without revolution or collapse. And when/if that happens, it would be extreme folly to keep the same bad system that got us here in the first place.

I'm really sorry you see it that way. I don't! I agree with James Wilson:

"Liberty and security in government depend not on the limits, which the rulers may please to assign to the exercise of their own powers, but on the boundaries, within which their powers are circumscribed by the constitution. With us, the powers of magistrates, call them by whatever name you please, are the grants of the people . . . The supreme power is in them; and in them, even when a constitution is formed, and government is in operation, the supreme power still remains. A portion of their authority they, indeed, delegate; but they delegate that portion in whatever manner, in whatever measure, for whatever time, to whatever persons, and on whatever conditions they choose to fix."

U.S. Supreme Court Justice James Wilson (Lectures, 1790-1791)

[Huck]

"Liberty and security in government depend not on the limits, which the rulers may please to assign to the exercise of their own powers, but on the boundaries, within which their powers are circumscribed by the constitution.

And when your Constitution is as full of holes as ours, you get what you get.

With us, the powers of magistrates, call them by whatever name you please, are the grants of the people . . . The supreme power is in them; and in them, even when a constitution is formed, and government is in operation, the supreme power still remains. A portion of their authority they, indeed, delegate; but they delegate that portion in whatever manner, in whatever measure, for whatever time, to whatever persons, and on whatever conditions they choose to fix."

And unfortunately, the "people" who created and ratified our constitution gave way too much power to the national government.

[Huck]

It’s impossible for a very practical reason as well-—the “people” of America are stone-cold ignorant.