"Much of the recent revival of interest in the Constitution centers around...."

"Much of the recent revival of interest in the Constitution centers around the Bill of Rights and the war on terror, a subject I discuss elsewhere in this book.  I could not be more sympathetic to these concerns.  However, Americans must remember that the Constitution was designed not merely to prevent the federal government from violating the rights that later appeared in the Bill of Rights.  It was also intended to limit the federal government's overall scope.  Article I, Section 8, lists the powers of Congress.  Common law held such lists of powers to be exhaustive.

According to the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, all powers not delegated to the federal government by the states (in Article I, Section 8) and not prohibited to the states in the Constitution (in Article 1, Section 10) are reserved to the states or to the people.  Thomas Jefferson held that this principle formed the very foundation of our Constitution.  It was a guarantee that the experience Americans endured under the British would not be repeated, and that political decisions would be made by their own local legislature rather than by a distant central government that would be much more difficult, if not impossible, for them to control." -Pages 44 & 45 of The Revolution, A Manifesto

"If the Founders' advice is acknowledged at all....."

"If the Founders' advice is acknowledged at all, it is dismissed on the grounds that we no longer live in their times.  The same hackneyed argument could be used against any of the other principles the Founders gave us.  Should we give up the First Amendment because times have changed? How about the rest of the Bill of Rights? It's hypocritical and childish to dismiss certain founding principles simply because a convenient rationale is needed to justify foolish policies today.  The principles enshrined in the Constitution do not change.  If anything, today's more complex world cries out for the moral clarity of a noninterventionist foreign policy.

It is easy to dismiss the noninterventionist view as the quaint aspiration of men who lived in a less complicated world, but it's not so easy to demonstrate how our current policies serve any national interest at all. "  -Page 10 of The Revolution, A Manifesto