Unfortunately the Founders did not envision the unmitigated arrogance, and educational turpitude of today's media class. The death of common sense and the overabundance of attorneys in our republic has perverted this amendment like some of the others.

This quote should have been paired up with the James Madison quote that goes something like this, " I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents" or something like that.

The opinion may be of no value - in fact downright dangerous if the ten thousand opinionated ignoramuses are in the White House, Senate, House of Representatives, Governor's Office, news media, etc, This is the situation we are in right now vis-à-vis free market capitalism, business and national defense.