Like you I agree that the Constitution must be followed.
Here's an example that you don't wish to acknowledge. The Constitution says that our government [the people] need to "provide for a common defence"...
• To provide and maintain a Navy;
• To provide for calling forth the Militia
• To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia
And from THAT we know have a standing military force that costs us AS MUCH AS THE REST OF THE WORLD COMBINED! I ask you, "How much is too much"?
Can you imagine if we spent as much as the rest of the world combined on our social services? Our healthcare? Our welfare system?
So when you ask the question...
If you think there is a line they wont cross once you empower them to cross whichever lines they like, where do you imagine that line to be?
I know where that line will be crossed and it will result in an obscenely bloated expensive and wasteful military.
You're right CP. What are you going to do about it?