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It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.

The Congress plays a central role in our constitutional structure.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position.

When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of checks and balances. That vow doesn't say, 'Unless it's politically uncomfortable.'

Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.

The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good.

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

When you start messing with the Constitution and what this country was founded on - our baseline is what we call it - it just opens up too many doors.