The tipping point is in this debate. If the enumeration of powers is not adhered to, then democracy will run amok, and turn into socialism, and then whatever happens after that. The Framers were well aware of the weakness of democracy, and tried to build in controls through the Constitution, but they also affirmed the need for the soft controls of a society that is moral - that is, not given to take advantage of the system and defined by a culture of individual responsibility. This is the American ideal, although the words now connote an evil taint as interpreted by the left, and almost ridiculed in popular culture. We ain't doing so good.

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"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher