Wow, what ignorance.
Mr. Ames was correct in highlighting the passage ...If the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it sure doesn’t say so...The truth is, the Constitution massively strengthened the central government of the U.S. for the simple reason that it established one where none had existed before...
There is a reason "Time" readership has plummeted and the thickness of the magazine has been reduced to the point it looks like a coupon booklet. The lack of critical thinking and errors in logic and reasoning in this one sentence highlight those reasons.
If you asked liberals about The Federalist Papers, they would say "Yeah, I have read them..." with the same amount of conviction they would denounce Senator Joseph McCarthy, and with the same understanding of the subject.
Good God. Understanding the need for and engaging in the act of creating a Federal Government is not the equivalent of granting that federal government unlimited power and unlimited government growth, which is the meat of what this bonehead says.
Make no mistake: THIS IS WHAT ALL LIBERALS THINK.
Our founders grappled for years on the composition of the Constitution. This idiot thinks the founders would go through all that, and then would turn around and say "It's just a guideline...follow it if it is convenient".
Hearing liberals discuss the intentions of the Founders and The Constitution is like listening to them talk about "What Jesus Would Do" and The Bible.
You give them undeserved credit. Their treason is not born of ignorance. It is informed, willful and deliberate.