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ENIGMA

	Today, the Constitution appears to be plainly absurd. “advice and consent” seem to be only one action. If it takes two thirds of the Congress to submit an amendment, and three fourths of the States to adopt one, how can a mere majority of the judges of the Supreme Court suffice to construe that amendment? If even a law that is “necessary and proper” can be initiated only by the agreement House and Senate, how can any mere Secretary utter a regulation having effect in every State? If the States have limited themselves to using “gold and silver coin” as legal tender, how can all but three States have adopted a mere currency? If every State is guaranteed a “republican form of government,” how can there be U.S. attorneys or judges within a State? If the U.S. is a republic, how can it have a civil service? If any State, even Hawaii or Alaska, can command the president to send troops in the event of “domestic violence” – then domestic violence can hardly be occurring behind locked doors and curtained windows. If every State can “think proper to admit” immigrants, then how can there be a Border Patrol running loose within the States? If every political party meets in convention to choose its candidates, how can the electoral colleges of so many States act without deliberating together? If the Congress, being authorized to “organize and arm and discipline” the militia, is nevertheless incompetent to restrict their possession of arms, how can it be allowed to infringe that right for other citizens? If the Constitution was a ratified by a mere majority in only nine twelfths of the States (conceivably less than half of the citizens), how can it bind all fifty States 215 years later? SOLUTION: The keeping of the Constitution was entrusted to the officers of the States – particularly the governors, who command the militia. However, the officers and office-seekers have formed parties. Parties were not foreseen by the framers of the Constitution, who anticipated rivalries between “navigating” and “staple” States (over Lincoln and Hamlin’s “protection”), and between legislative and executive branches. The parties are inherently biased towards a strong, or at least a rich, central government, because they can bleed it for the money they need to contest elections in the States.