[SuperLuminal]

"....to make sure that a reasonably literate people could not ignore, confuse or abuse its meaning. Congressional powers are strictly limited to those enumerated. "

Even the Founders couldn't imagine the moronic intellectual level now fully attained by 99% of the citizenry.

All thanks to the Fabian-run government schools and the moronic NEA slaves who do the actual indoctrination of the government's children,

[Jacquerie]

On closely reading Article I Section 8 a few days ago, I felt for a moment as if I had made an important discovery.

The fact is that my interpretation was the accepted version from 1787 until the mid 1930s. What happened then? Leftism happened. As EPDVINA and Navy Patriot related here, the Left has an amazing ability to redefine and contort words and concepts into unrecognizable forms. And yes, a dumbed down, radical labor union dominated educational system is probably as great a threat to our future as radical islam.

[Little Ray]

Actually, they could.
What couldn’t imagine was the popular election of senators, universal suffrage, or the level of the Federal governments intrusion into the election process. IIRC, initially, only property owners could vote.
Nowadays, my vote can be canceled out by welfare recipient who has never been financially independent or paid a penny in income taxes in his entire life - and they call that “fair.”