[tacticalogic]

The Constitution says X but for the last 75 years we've done Y. So it would be wrong to change. So two wrongs make a right.

That kind of logic gets particularly galling when you realize that we did just fine doing X for 150 years, until someone (mostly FDR and his New Deal congress and court) decided we should do Y. The didn't have any problem changing after 150 years, what's so hard about doing it after 75?

[Rule of Law]

That kind of logic gets particularly galling when you realize that we did just fine doing X for 150 years, until someone (mostly FDR and his New Deal congress and court) decided we should do Y. The didn't have any problem changing after 150 years, what's so hard about doing it after 75?

Because of what we'd be changing back to -- a limited government where Washington wasn't all that important. They don't want that.