[Mark Bahner]

"It's obvious, but apparently not to some judges who have over the past 200+ years increasingly expanded the role of Congress beyond the obvious scope of the texts you mention."

I have about this much respect for those judges (which is to say, virtually all judges)...look at the distance between the pixels in this period---->.

By the way, however...the federal government was essentially run at Constitutional levels right up to WWI. So it's been less than 100 years that the role of Congress started to clearly go beyond the scope of the Constitution.

[My2Cents]

Thanks for your comments. I appreciate your perspective on US history, and respect for constitutional government.