I don’t think I was specific enough. It seems that the politicians like it when people forget their past, so a new past can be put in its place that serves the politicians. That’s what I was trying to get at.
Oh, yeah. Agreed. Orwell knew the number, and by his writing in these Resolutions, Jefferson did too. Same words, new meaning.
to enlarge its powers by forced constructions of the constitutional charter which defines them; and that implications have appeared of a design to expound certain general phrases ... so as to destroy the meaning and effect, of the particular enumeration which necessarily explains and limits the general phrases ...
See, for example "general welfare" and "to regulate commerce among the several states." Yeah, the Republic has been dying for awhile. Heck, it might well be dead, existing in (shell) name only.