Constitutionalists vs. What?

Saturday was a red letter day for the Constitution Party of Minnesota. We sponsored former Sheriff Richard Mack at the Holiday Inn Airport in Bloomington. As treasurer, that leaves me with a pile of paperwork on my kitchen table. Last eveing we attended a Republican gubernatorial candidate forum at St. Ben's. Both events leave me skeptical as to the desire to return to our constitutional roots, both on a federal and state level. George Washington, our first president, went against the U.S. Constitution with the Whiskey Rebellion. Thomas Jefferson overlooked the Constitution with the Louisiana Purchase. Abraham Lincoln overlooked it in refusing the southern states their right to secede from the Union. At both the state and national levels our money has been taxed from us to be redistributed as charity to other nations, or other citizens. How many more instances are out there? If violation of our constitutions has been going on from the beginning, what makes us think that we can reverse the trend now? That they are able to be violated so easily indicates a flaw in our U.S. Constitution and our state constitutions. Is this American experiment, then, really the best, most moral form of government there is? Have we been presumptuous in attempting to foist our form of government onto everyone else? Is it worth saving? Are we able to save it? What next?