Why do our politicians always lack knowledge of the Constitution? They act likes parents for the nation?

Question

Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. - YET: They want to restrict gambling, Create welfare and retirement for EVERYONE, Save the flag (which is private property, to protect it they must define what constitutes a flag), define and punish what is profane (FCC), bypass the constitution (Congress not the President declares war) **Section VIII - To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water**

Time and time again they demonstrate usurping states and interfering with private rights.

This government wants to CONTROL EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY. We are becoming a socilist country.

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States"

Answer 1

When it comes down to it, most polticians WILL acknowledge the Constitution.

What they will do is simply stretch some portion of it to incredibly tenuous interpretations to get around any Constitutional restrictions standing between them and unlimited power.

See, for example, the case of Wickard v. Filburn.

Answer 2

It has been said that Franklin Deleno Roosevelt was one of the worst things to ever happen to the United States.

Prior to his presidency, people only thought the government had to guarantee them two things: 1) freedom of speech and expression, and 2) freedom of religion. But Franklin Roosevelt added two new freedoms, things that had never been considered the perview of the Federal Government prior to that: 3) freedom from WANT, and 4) freedom from FEAR.

WANT and FEAR are two very common, NORMAL parts of the human condition. We are not guaranteed infinite resources, nor are we guaranteed that we will never go hungry. We have to work for what we need, and secure ourselves from what we fear, and that has been true of the species of Man since the dawn of time.

What Roosevelt did in that moment was to declare the US Federal Government the parent of the American people.

What he did in that moment was create an entirely new breed of politician, one created solely for the purpose of pandering to the whims of his constituency; a politician who did not act out of the future betterment of his constituents and the nation, but instead to make sure people never 'wanted' more money, more food, more housing, more economic stability, more ________.

By existing to free people from 'fear', politicians exist to free people from that which makes them completely human: The requirement that you need to work for your living (and I am not talking about Welfare, although that is one consequence of such a philosophy).

Politicians who live for this purpose are, ultimately, creating a nation of people who are lazy, irresponsible, and who will whine at the smallest inconvenience, because "the government" didn't make it better.

This is why the governments of today are so wholly obsessed with control, why the 9th and 10th Amendments of the Bill of Rights are so constantly and completely ignored, and why it is so easy for politicians to create "election year" propoganda designed merely to drum up votes.

The New Deal and all of its associated governmental bloat is only a symptom of the problem. The real problem is that we have a mindset that says the government has to fix everything for us, to make our lives perfect, when it has no and should not ever have had, any responsibility to do so.

Answer 3

Most of the time, Congress is acting under the authority of the Commerce Clause - regulating interstate commerce

so as to gambling, alot of people travel across state lines to gamble

The same rational is used for most legislation

Answer 4

Well a lot of people get too caught in the things they do that they know they shouldnt be that sometimes they need to be reigned in to preserve the society that we have created here. Those that cannot obey themselves must be commanded.