[IG_Semmelweiss]

I feel you are commingling negative rights with regulations .

The constitution provided "negative" rights to the people and individual states. Negative rights are rights that exist unless someone acts to negate them. This means the constitution affirms that people and states get to keep all priviledges, unless specifically enumerated as priviledges of the federal government.

So, if the Federal government starts with nothing, the right end state for the for the government to end with nothing.

This is quite different from the inertia you see today in Federal government regulatory growth.

Going back to the current discussion, negative rights dont lapse since they define the starting point. It is only regulations (I.e. anything that comes outside of the constitution) which is subject to reset.

[benj111]

Negative rights, are rights to be free from something. Eg cruel and unusual punishment.

Also the quote started "It may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution"

So I don't see what's wrong talking about the constitution.