Returning the usurped power to the states and the people

In a recent Modern Age article Ralph Rossum reiterated that the American Constitution established a limited government by separating and dividing the powers of government. The Constitutional limits on government are legal by way of the Constitution, this is not just a political limitation. The rule of law depends on adherence to the original intent of the Constitution, if judges are making law rather than interpreting the original content of the law, then the rule of law is not enduring.

Liberal advocates have abandoned these original-intent purposes of the Constitution and replaced them with the idea that the primary purpose of government is not to provide for limited government but to protect rights, and even to increase the powers of the government to grant greater protection for more and more rights, and furthermore to say that the Supreme Court can decide these rights.

We need to return the power usurped by the Judiciary and the federal government to the states and the people---this is the task of Congress. If we can do this then we can once again know that the main task of government is to protect the states and the private sector, government is a servant of the people and needs to be taken out of the way of the people.

With this in mind we can see the sense in such things as cutting the top marginal tax rates which has been proven to vastly increase federal revenue. But before we celebrate this windfall we need to understand that we do not increase the size of government with the extra revenues, we need to have both deficit cuts to our massive government along with tax cuts.

However, I must say, which might seem contrary, that spending some of the revenue money on powerful sociobiological research centers should be the action of future government grants---human survival and our eventual evolution to Godhood might depend on this wise action.