...because with Congress there is a dispersion of power through its representational design that acts as a natural check against excess (look at what the Tea Baggers alone have done to Congress). And in the end, it can do nothing without the signature and the power of the Executive office to carry things out which also puts a check on their power.
However, what I don't recall ever seeing a provision for in the Constitution was one that allowed for the ''fast-tracking of Due Process'' through just one branch of the government with which to judge and sentence our citizens, as we're now doing. Particularly when the sentence being reached in some cases, is death.
Letters of Marque were issued as an aid in stopping the Barbary Pirates from commandeering American ships. Many being paid for by England. All the western European nations, to one extent or another, used Privateers (pirates who worked for governments) because no one had a standing army and/or navy large enough back then to threaten the whole world. Not like we do now.
And finally, if you look at the rosters of the NSA you'll see that a large number come from the MIC. This is a great way for them to appear a lot smaller than what they truly are, by simply contracting their work of surveilling the proles and the outer party members, out to the private sector. After a while you can't tell where the private sector ends and the public sector begins. Once you reach this point, you're already in fascism.
But I'm glad all this has ''conflict'' of opinion has spurned an interest into the letter of the law. Maybe if one reads long and hard enough, they'll also understand the spirit of those laws as well.
- Oh, and one of those founding fathers had this to say about men with power. I take his advice, literally:
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