“Only after setting forth that fundamental moral order [See Part 1], did the founders turn to the question of government, which is instituted, they said, “to secure these rights,” it's just Powers der...

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“Only after setting forth that fundamental moral order [See Part 1], did the founders turn to the question of government, which is instituted, they said, “to secure these rights,” it's just Powers der...

And “that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”?

“In America we think it important that government and governmental powers be legitimate.

"Congress only enacted Nationwide criminal laws 'pursuant to direct grants of authority found in the Constitution...'.

"The powers delegated ... to the federal government are few and defined" see Federalist #45, yet "[t]here are so many federal laws that no one...knows the actual number of crimes." (Citations omitted)

Interpretation and Construction of the Constitution (Part III).