Mary Maxwell, LL.B., Ph.D. Did the Framers of the US Constitution in 1787 genuinely wrack their brains to come up every possible power-constraining mechanism for citizens to use against an evil government? I don’t know. But, as I will argue below, any omissions on their part can be filled in by other mechanisms that are present in the Constitution. Don’t give up hope! One huge omission at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787 was the Founders’ failure to raise the question: What if some Americans become so wealthy that they can…
