I absolutely agree. Now if we can get all our "educated" officials to agree and quit trashing it, this country would be better off.
Jeffersonian political philosophy severely damaged the national comprehension of the constitution. Thank God there was a man of towering intellectual capacity, John Marshall, to take over from Hamilton as Jefferson's nemisis. This did not prevent the Civil War from flowing from Jefferson's misrepresentations of the meaning of the federal government and its constitutional base.