Back on Oct. 11, 1798 John Adams admonished: "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." As he wrote in The Federalist No. 45, James Madison envisioned little or no role for the federal government in law enforcement because the federal government was to be one of very limited...