Quote Originally Posted by cstone View Post
I'm going to call that a bit overly simplistic. There is no possible way our Founding Fathers could anticipate everything that would happen 300 years into the future. The US Constitution is amended and interpreted to allow for changes in culture and circumstances. I just don't believe that everything should be or needs to be explicitly spelled out in the Constitution.
This always seemed like a cop out to me. There is no way that the Founding Fathers needed, nor intended to anticipate changes in the future. They wrote the Constitution in such a manner that it could be used to justly rule a country regardless of the existence of Youtube, Ponzi schemes, an illegal drug trade, etc.

I think you are absolutely correct that the way an agency is run depends on who is in charge, but because people aren't being thrown into prison for the way that they run their agencies, things aren't going to change. I'm trying to find a story I heard on NPR the other night to post here, as it exactly illustrates both your, and my point, but I can't seem to find it.