The Statists and the Progressives have enjoyed huge success at curbing the influence of the Constitution and moving us towards Ameritopia, away from the constitutional republic, set up and fought for by the Founding Fathers.
Why did the Founding Fathers build in separation of powers, and the Electoral College for electing the President, and, before the added and introduced 16th Amendment, provide for the states' legislatures to elect federal senators to Congress?
There are several reason I am sure but I will provide three negative reasons and one positive reason why they established a constitutional republic.
First, they accepted that people were basically evil. Good government must account for this and govern without becoming corrupt, overbearing and turning on those that it was meant to serve and protect.
Second, they knew the lust for too much power, the wrong kind of power, or the misapplication of power wielded corrupts all humans, badly tainting individuals, but greatly hurting the common good, when millions collectively amass and abuse power. They sought to craft a Constitution with political structures that kept power separated and decentralized, so that one person (the Executive Leader), the federal hierarchy (the Administrative state) or the majority voting to deny minority rights (mobocracy) could not tyrannize society.
Third, centralized power inevitably corrupts all power-wielders. Those that wield power that they have no right to amass, hold and operate under are those that have deprived the citizens of their private, personal, constitutionally allotted and divinely allotted power--under natural law--that is theirs to wield as private citizens, enjoying their liberty to pursue life, liberty, happiness, property and personal fulfillment as they see fit.
Where power is clustered, corruption and tyranny are inextricably intertwined with it. This sordid power arrangement vitiates. Where power is immorally clustered and wielded in government, in corporations or institutions of any kind, citizens become groupist, nonindividuating, enslaved, popular, poor under socialism, socially determined and living their lives as ants in the hierarchical hive that they are members of.
Implicit in the power arrangement sought by the Founding Fathers is that individual liberty and rights would be secured and protected under a federal government set up with the consent of the governed. Power would be kept decentralized and the parties mutually offsetting to prevent centralizing power.
The Progressives, for over 100 years, have conspired to break down those walls of separation; their efforts today are accelerating, at they lust after power as a one-party, Marxist dictatorship. That Ameritopia is a satanic dream, the end sought by half of America. If that does not frighten you, yo are not awake and in the game.
Fourth, the Founding Fathers wanted a Constitutional Republic so that individual citizens and individuals could find happiness as liberated individuators and individuals, building wealth, property and personal achievement while doing their own thing, the penultimate expressing of their natural, unalienable rights.
Federal income taxes and direct election of Senators detracts from this brilliant vision either openly supported or implied in the writing and way that they set up the American government.
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