When a living thing dies, it may leave behind some traces of its existence, such as bones or petrified or mummified structures. Our constitution, long dead, has left behind 3 things from Article I. Section 8:
 

  1. The "general welfare" clause: The Congress shall have power to . . . provide for the . . . general welfare of the United States

  2. The "necessary and proper" clause: [The Congress shall have power] To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

  3. The "commerce" clause: [The Congress shall have power] To regulate commerce . . . among the several states

 
These 3 remaining bones, together with parts of the document concerning the Executive branch and the Supreme Court, are the basis upon which the government has erected its gigantic control apparatus based in Washington, DC. Everything else in the constitution is irrelevant; i.e., decayed and decomposed, no longer in effect. The broadest interpretation of these remaining clauses has been employed to allow what amounts to unlimited government, when the supposed purpose of the document was to create a limited government.

On top of these remains, the Supreme Court has invented the "compelling government interest" doctrine and has succeeded in foisting upon the country that it, and it alone, decides the meaning of whatever is left of the constitution. The compelling interest doctrine is this: if the court decides that it disapproves of something going on in American society, it can assert that the government has the right to override existing laws and individual rights in order to "correct" the situation. In effect, this means that, attached to all your rights as an individual human being, there is an invisible caveat which says, yes you have these rights but the government can cancel them at its whim if it wants society to be different. This cancellation power rests on the unconstitutional idea that only the court can interpret the constitution. The result is that the court is also an unaccountable dictator of law, based only on its own word.

We then wind up with unlimited, all powerful government and with government being the only check on its own power. Our only recourse is to change or eliminate government. Reform is a joke. The constitution is a dead joke. Tyranny reigns and we must abolish it. That is, if we give a damn about freedom.