[Spiff]

Being a student of the Constitution, I too have surmised that the 14th Amendment is the ill-fitted, weak link in the Constitutional chains that were intended to limit the Federal Government. It will prove/has proven to be the undoing of our free Republic. These articles only echo what I figured out on my own.

[tpaine]

Constitutional chains were intended to limit both the federal government, AND state/local governments.

Constitutional principles are -- "the supreme Law of the Land;" --