The question ought to diverge towards reality. Did a bunch of whig wearing elites of the 18th century understand the effects of modern capitalism, the wage society, modern technology, etc. HELL NO.

Therefore, instead of trying to deduce their feeble desires from a document that only continues to exist because it is so feebly vague so as to provide for plenty of bending to modern reality, we ought to ask ourselves what the hell our society would look like without a government empowered to spend outside some vauge notions of 'enumeration.'

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