re: Party Politics and the Crumbling of an Empire

The purpose of our government is stated clearly in the first sentence of the Constitution.

"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Building up a nation that too often acts like the world's gendarme is NOT what our Founders had in mind. It amuses me when I read/hear so called Constitutional conservatives sounding an imperialist call for our foreign policy and then, out of the other side of their mouths they criticize liberals for creating "big Government!"