[ConservingFreedom]

No, they would have the explicitly enumerated powers, e.g., coin money, and raise and support armies.

Yes, they would...they could meet for three days once per year. They would have nothing else to do.

Which is how the Founders envisioned it. Now you're finally catching on.

[Cold Heat]

Well, if that’s what they wanted, then there would have been little need to give congress the power to make law.

So now we have come full circle again...In a circular argument that has been made constantly in every generation for numerous reasons, usually for freedom issues that argue against one restriction or another.

Interesting exercises, and they probably need to be done from time to time.