Sure, I can address that...
Maybe you did and I'm not seeing it. My point is that IF we could get to a point where the gravest violation of Constitutional limits was an ad hoc appropriation for certain select destitute war widows, as in 1828, then from the perspective of 2015 we'd be in terrific shape. That level of nearly-Constitutional governance has a much longer pedigree (you mentioned "pre-Depression") and is thus much more reasonable to hope for than the pristine form of the First Congress. (Still far from easy, though.)
That’s true...but everything has a first time. Particularly when your society constantly refers to “They did (it)! Why can’t I” as a rule of conduct, it then follows that [”it”] evolves fairly quickly when looking at a 200 year span.
That same (it) today has no relationship to the 1800 (it).
That (it) and the money it represented then, has grown up to billions of dollars for nearly anything you can imagine and it’s expanded to corporations via crony capitalism.
But like every animal it was born as a little feller....