There are many things many people want Congress to do. I would like a law that allows private citizens to execute any slowpoke in the fast lane on the interstate right then and there as they hold up everyone behind them. Our constitutional system would make that difficult, and it would never pass Congress for many reasons, one of which is hardly anything passes Congress except post office naming rights.

The Founders of this country had a problem. They had formed a new nation under the Articles of Confederation, with each of the 13 colonies having been transformed into sovereign nations unwilling to surrender their newly claimed powers to a central government. It was difficult to do anything, and though you may view the present spectacle in Washington as dysfunctional, it looks positively proficient, efficient, and functional compared to the United States under the Articles of Confederation.

Meeting to revise the Articles, the men who led this nation into being soon realized that the 13 sovereign nations would need to surrender some measure of sovereignty to a new national........

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