Two competing interpretations of the Constitution shape nearly every national debate: one that limits federal power to its original design, and another that expands it to meet the perceived needs of the present.

What began with Woodrow Wilson’s “Darwinian” vision of government evolved into a century of sweeping federal authority, from FDR’s New Deal and LBJ’s Great Society to modern healthcare mandates and executive actions on rent, debt, and immigration.

While courts once checked the size and scope of Congress, the rise of bureaucratic rulemaking and emergency powers has left Americans governed by unelected agencies and partisan courts.

Today’s affordability crisis (in housing, healthcare, and education) traces back to decades of well-intended overreach.

When law becomes a tool of politics and the Constitution bends to the moment, how long can a nation claim to be ruled by laws and not by men?

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