[Onelifetogive]

Do we want to live in a country without a legal system, without a military, without free education, without safety net programs?

You know what would be really cool...Some kind of document (we could call it, for instance, a "Constitution") that said exactly what we wanted the government to do and no more. I'm just dreaming, I guess.....

[Oztrich Boy]

You are dreaming. They would screw it up by including words like "promote the general welfare" which would give Big Government the impetus to do Everything, and include the power to "regulate commerce ... among the several states" which the aforesaid Big Government wuld declare then gave them the power to do Everything.