Why don't you just come clean here and admit you're a living constitutionalist. It's ok, we won't shoot you for your beliefs unlike a certain president who shot 400,000 people for a inaccurate, anti-constitutional, anti-rule of law, anti-inalienable right, anti-authority, set of beliefs. Hmmm...now who was that who did that. Wait, wait, it's coming to me.
No, your vaunted and cherished "fluidity" has led to a national (NOT federal) government that:
1. Has wracked up $16 or so trillion in current debt
2. Is working on $105 or so trillion in unfunded liabilities
3. And making grandmothers in wheelchairs take of their undergarments in order to board a plane.
Yes, these federalism crushing THEORIES based on "Universal Law" have worked out just great. But then again, as you're a living constitutionalist, and a pragmatist, I would suspect you're quite ok with the outcome.
So I'll end with the "gotcha" question for others who have yet to answer (except you, I'll get to that in a sec) on this thread. Here it is:
Please point to that section of Article II of the United States Constitution where the good people of the SEPARATE and SOVEREIGN States DELEGATED a power that they alone possessed as the repositories of Inalienable Rights to the Executive Branch of Article II to "Preserve the Union????"
Chirping crickets sounds in the background. You can stop looking...there is none.
You however rockr, you are the man because you answered CORRECTLY and HONESTLY..."Neither are clearly enumerated in the Constitution. So what?" FINALLY...a big government, pro-arbitrary power "conservative" comes clean. So what? I'm truly impressed, rarely do conservative living constitutionalists admit such. Seriously, I'm impressed.
Indeed, my question is a "gotcha" question to smoke out conservative living constitutionalists. I run into them all the time. Some actually see the error of their ways (like me and Dr. Walter Williams) recant our former big-government (just our kind of big government) ideas and reorient ourselves back to the Rule of Law. It doesn't sound like you're one of them...but I could be wrong.
Anyway, this is a "gotcha" question...and it works like a charm. So now that you've answered it honestly, take pride in your arbitrary power supporting living Constitution ideas. That's ok, we pro-inalienable rights people won't shoot you. Though we're pretty sure you'll shoot us if Texas or Oklahoma, or Idaho, or Montana decides they want to withdraw from the Union. You'll probably weave together something like this as you oil your guns:
"I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments.
Oh, wait...somebody already used this.
Great, now I'm dead because of some "Universal Law" that holds Unions together in perpetuity that nobody taught me about. Stupid me, I thought that our ratified Constitution was the Law...not some Universal Law. Crap! Can somebody call an ambulance? I've been shot by the Lincolnian living constitutionalists because people of our State, like me, thought we had Inalienable Rights and tried to withdraw from the Compact.
That would be "president" Davis.