One more time, straight, and to the point. The Constitution allows those who want it to have limited freedom through Government - the limited freedom of Government. It also allows those who do not want the limitations of Government to not have those limitations set on themselves, even by the people who use the Constitution to attempt to limit the freedom of everyone else.

There is one thing that the Constitution does not do. It does not jump up and make the decision for anyone. It does not simply somehow protect the desires of both kinds of people automatically. It does not automatically, magically give limited freedom of Government to those who want such limited freedom in their minds. It also does not automatically, magically give freedom from Government to those who want such complete freedom. Rather, it must be invoked... by both groups.

The reason that the Constitution was set up at its start, to look like it was forming Government rather than offering complete freedom, was that if it had not been presented in that way, it would have neutralized itself immediately, and would have been a wasted document right from the start.

Nowadays there are many people who think that the Constitution and Government should NEVER have had a start at all. They grind their teeth at the thought of even having such a powerless form of Government as was presented by the Articles of Confederation.

But the people of THAT day, the late 1700s day, thought otherwise. They wanted their freedom from the king and his government, and they knew of no other way than to form a counter Government to organize themselves to fight the king.

Yet, those people were, also, not all that pro-Government. They realized (as we do) that any Government just might attempt to become a king like the one that they were fighting. So, they made the backbone of their (our) Government to be the Constitution, a document that, when properly invoked, can be made to give both complete freedom and limited freedom simultaneously. Not an easy task.

Idealistically, we all want peace, prosperity, happiness, no restraints on freedom, long life in good health, and a whole lot of other good and wonderful things. Realistically, the good in life is limited. The Constitution is very close to offering the best of all worlds in a REAL world, where limitations of all kinds exist.

If you decide to trash the Constitution like Obama is trying to do, be sure that you have something better to take its place. China would enjoy coming over here and stomping on a bunch of little nation states that were squabbling and fighting among themselves in weakness.
 

First of all, the reason you need a form of government is to organize your activities with those of others. When "they" come to take your guns, "they" will be organized. You will not even be expecting them to show up at your door. If you happen to have a powerful neighborhood-watch government in place, you just might be forewarned that "their" armored vehicles are rolling up your street.

As a founding father, one who is experienced in fighting King George's organized military, how do you get a bunch of stupid-States-people to organize under a Government that maintains freedom? The term "government" itself implies reduction in freedom. So, how can Government produce that which it is against by its very nature? And we DO need Government of sorts. We saw what fighting King George's troops was like without having orderly governing dictates.

The way to do it is to make a Constitution that has hidden freedom meanings and ideas right inside. The Outer existence of the Constitution forms a Government that limits freedom. Yet within the Constitutional verbiage are found the freedoms that, if employed, will bypass the Governmental freedom limitations.

Without this hidden verbiage, the Constitution would be a dictatorial document. Without the verbiage being hidden, the Constitution would have no effect whatsoever, and would be a completely useless document, not fit for anything but the trash can. But with the freedom verbiage being hidden, the Constitution becomes a document of dictatorial power for organizing the people into a formidable and powerful nation. At the same time, if the Constitution becomes so domineering over the people, that they finally take a deep look at its hidden freedom verbiage, and bring that freedom verbiage out into the open and use it, FREEDOM wins, because of the Constitution.

Let us also pay attention to the term "Founding Fathers."  There are two sets of "Founding Fathers."  The first are the guys who risked everything and lost pretty much everything who signed the Declaration of Independence against their government and rebelled against their rightful King.  Those guys created freedom from government. 

The "Founding Fathers" you want to glowingly talk about, saw an opportunity to scheme their way into power when all they had been asked to do was fix three areas of the Articles of Confederation that had shown deficiencies.  Those are the rats who created the CONstitution and brought it back to their Colonies to lobby for its approval.  Failing to get the nine states approval needed per their document to implement the central government and having two signing states reconsidering due to angry peasants they agreed to create the Bill of Rights.  That conned all but one of the 13 colonies to sign onto the CONstitution.  So one free colony remained, Rhode Island.  Were they allowed to go their way in peace?  Oh, hell no!  They were boycotted and blockaded into signing on to an all ruling central government.  Even then they had to be reminded they were supposed to create a Bill of Rights to amend to the CONstitution. 

So where to from there?  Suppressing the aborigines.  Whiskey rebellion.  Import tax. Conscription into militias.  Taking of properties.  Marbury v. MADison.  Not a bad start, those "Founding Fathers" didn't do too badly .... one ring to rule them all.