The long and the short of it is that there have always been some liberals who wanted the Federal government to be more larger and some liberals who wanted the Federal government to be smaller. And there have always been some conservatives who wanted the Federal government to be more larger and some conservatives who wanted the Federal government to be smaller. It usually depends upon the specific issue. For example, in the area of health care (an area discussed in this article), Medicare and national health care plans are ordinarily thought of as "liberal" ideas. Conservative Republicans typically oppose such programs on the ground that "one size fits all" Federal programs are inappropriate and that the states should be allowed to experiment on their own. However, when the specific issue concerns litigation in the health care arena, it is the liberal Democrats who want to allow each state to make their own laws and it is the conservative Republicans who insist on a "one size fits all" Federal rule.
None of this is really a liberal vs. conservative issue. Each side just chooses which government they want to make the rules after they make a judgment about what rules each of the governments would implement.
"Unfortunately, the next generation of collectivists would be less candid in their contempt for the federal system. Once they learned to feign devotion to the Constitution they secretly regarded as obsolete, the laborious formality of amendment would no longer be necessary. They could merely pretend that the Constitution was on their side. After Franklin Roosevelt restaffed the Supreme Court with his compliant cronies, the federal government would be free to make up its own powers as it went along, thanks to the notion that the Constitution was a malleable “living document,” whose central meaning could be changed, and even reversed, by ingenious interpretation."
I believe what the article--essay--constitution is saying...
when the govt becomes the all and all and end to itself---SOCIALISM/ELITES...
we will be w/o rights/property and G-PC will rule and engineer our lives unvoluntarily...
tyranny!
Before I was on the FR I thought Republican 'tyranny' was ok...like the general public---their preference...right vs left!