I disagree. I think there's a perfect balance possible with the Federal Government as the defender of the Constitution. The states like to act as if things are in the Constitution that aren't (Nullification). A lot of what the Constitution does is logically implied, so when it says All Men are Created Equal - thats just what it means.
And I'm often baffled when Leftist nutbags are like "All men aren't created equal because we had slavery!"
Because a law was broken doesn't mean the law isn't there. So we write it in with the 14th Amendment after we slap around some ignorant upstarts. America's constitution was born of men long on theory and suppression. In many ways, its a really savvy document. The Federal Government, though, has a right to uphold the implicit rights of man even if they aren't spelled out. When you hear "strict constitutionalists" you should know it means "they try to skirt rights."
Ron Paul thinks its "ludicrous" the way they use the Interstate Commerce Clause because of things like the Civil Rights act and the Individual Mandate, but the truth is they won't need to do things like that if people were just good citizens. Its when the States try to uphold bull**** laws that we run into trouble. The Fugitive Slave act was a direct violation of one states sovereignty over another. You cannot mandate that our state violate its own law to uphold yours. So the Southern crybabies want to leave the states. Tough ****.
The Constitution isn't perfect, but part of its charge is defending it. If you like your country, make sure its doing the right thing. Don't expect it, do something about it. And if you don't, if you just whine, and cry, and complain, and say "well they're all corrupt theres no use for me to get involved" then i say you're a ****ty American and you don't deserve the freedoms it provides you.
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