If you can come up with even the remotest thing that made the last election "unconstitutional," please feel free to point it out.

Al Gore and his lawyer platoons parachuted into Florida, according to a preplanned strategy, and started biting ears off, kicking people in the balls, and gouging eyes. In an astonishing and refreshing change of pace, the Republicans started gouging back instead of following their usual procedure of curling up into a fetal position and whining like little girls. Al Gore escalated by shoving the decision into the Democratic Florida Supreme Court. And so on, and so forth.

I don't want to go into the blow-by-blow or the endless recounts anymore. Suffice it to say that Al Gore started it. He deliberately turned the Florida election into an incomprehensible dog's breakfast of legal maneuvers, and it's just his bad luck that it turned out in favor of Bush. After the barroom floor is covered with blood and severed ears, it's a little late to start calling for the Marquis of Queensbury rules.

All that old news aside, I will grant you your point that the Supreme Court has, in the past, "interpreted" the Constitution in ways that seem to me far beyond anything the framers had in mind, and could easily do so again. The framers of the Constitution would probably be shocked into comas if they saw the nearly endless powers that our current Federal government has taken on for itself.