The constitution for The United States was an evil document from the beginning. It was written behind closed doors and forced down people's throats. (Especially when you compare it to the articles of confederation)
Congress can pass all laws necessary and proper.
(a passage in the constitution.) So, what is the limits of govern-cement? There are none, as long as those in congress feel it is necessary and proper. Tax children? It was necessary. etc, etc.
Without trying to be argumentative, I don't agree with what you've written here. The Constitution states, very explicitly, that Congress is given the power only "To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution THE FOREGOING POWERS." If words have meaning, that meaning is very different from today's interpretation that Congress has the power to make all laws they believe to be necessary and proper for our general welfare.
Even Alexander Hamilton, who is so frequently trotted out as "proof" that the Founders supported big government, wrote in Federalist no. 33, "And it is expressly to execute these powers, that the sweeping clause, as it has been affectedly called, authorises the national legislature to pass all necessary and proper laws. If there is any thing exceptionable, it must be sought for in the specific powers, upon which this general declaration is predicated. The declaration itself, though it may be chargeable with tautology or redundancy, is at least perfectly harmless."
Now, personally, I think Hamilton was a traitor, but he knew full well that not a single state would have ratified a document giving the federal legislature any such unlimited power. James Madison confirmed this understanding while debating the subject with Patrick Henry in the Virginia Federal Convention, when he said, "[W]hat new terrors can arise from this particular clause? It is only a superfluity. If that latitude of construction which he contends for, were to take place with respect to the sweeping clause, there would be room for those horrors. But it gives no supplementary power: It only enables them to execute the delegated powers. If the delegation of their powers be safe, no possible inconvenience can arise from this clause. It is at most but explanatory: For when any power is given, its delegation necessarily involves authority to make laws to execute it."
Although I agree with the Antifederalists on many, if not most points, this is not one of them. I can accept that the Federalists felt confident the American people would never be so foolish as to let a clause transferring the power to make laws for certain distinct, enumerated powers become a carte blanche to make any laws Congress saw fit.
Hamilton was a Rothschild shill and responsible for the 1st Nat. Bank and subsequently the War of 1812. I don't know if he was in favor of big govt., but he was in favor of big banks (with unlimited economic power). He was indeed a traitor.
Congress has made a law stating that you cannot grow wheat on your land without The US govern-cement consent. You are not allowed to grow wheat, because it may leave your property and may then cross state borders. And this was done long ago. Q.E.D.
So, although they might have intended to limit govern-cement.
All laws necessary and proper means anything those in congress feel are necessary and proper.
What Congress does now is so far removed from what the Framers intended... It's basically not a deliberative body anymore so much as bad theatre!