Government, although made up of well meaning people (I like to think so), is an entity unto itself. It is a self feeding organism. Government exists to empower itself.
The founders knew that people and government were fundamentally evil. So they tried to castrate it. They used enumerated powers. They said the Government can only do this short list of things.
We have spent 230 years dismantling enumerated powers. Look how quick TXdal was to give up the 4th and the 2nd. All that had to happen was he had to feel “unsafe”.
I wonder if the patriots at Concord and Lexington felt “unsafe”? Concord and Lexington was all about the 2nd Amendment and the 4th Amendment. The King came to get the guns. The citizens objected. They didn’t want the King taking their guns, and they didn’t want the king searching for their guns. So they shot back. 4th and 2nd.
Great post. Very well said!