The whole thing is a protection. The whole Constitution is a protection in that its purpose for existence is itself restraining government power … The Constitution's purpose is to restrain government power in nearly every instance. … So it restrains it on these two axes. The one I just described, the allocation of power between the states and the federal government, is the one we call federalism. (20:49–20:54)
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Asserts that the Constitution primarily serves to limit government power.
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