When Hamlet's uncle murders his father and assumes the throne, the die is cast for the balance of the play. Once Hamlet gets past the unseemliness of his uncle's whirlwind courtship and marriage to Hamlet's father's widow and learns of the murder most foul of his father, the feces hit the fan!

Imagine being the unseemly king uncle, sitting and watching a play by a traveling acting troupe, only to see them perform a play that recreates the murder by poison you committed against your own brother. Of that drama, Hamlet said, "The play's the thing wherein to catch the conscience of the king."

Hamlet and Shakespeare were both mistaken in their view that a king necessarily had a conscience.

But, about the Constitution, it was, itself, intended to catch the conscience of the coming federal leviathan, to trap that leviathan in a fixed and rigid tank.

Due to equal parts of farce and falsity, no President, no Congress, and no court has demonstrated consistent fealty to the express limits set out in the Constitution. None seems consistently to have held themselves bound to the perimeters of authority and power established by that Constitution.

Worse, as we anarchistic-tending folks see, the Constitution generally failed to secure the central feature necessary to establishing a legitimate government. Jefferson explained in the Declaration of Independence that the legitimate purpose and end of government was nothing other than to secure the natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that it was the right and the power of the people to overthrow any government that became destructive of those ends.