The Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us... Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)

In the mid-19th century, the matter of "ruling from the grave" was logically, ethically claimed (read below quote) as raised prior by late-18th century Anti-Federalists....

"And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it is claimed) has nevertheless bound three generations of men, consisting of many millions, and which (it is claimed) will be binding upon all the millions that are to come; but which nobody ever signed, sealed, delivered, witnessed, or acknowledged; and which few persons, compared with the whole number that are claimed to be bound by it, have ever read, or even seen, or ever will read, or see."

Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) wrote further thus condemned then the already oversized Federal Government as well properly critiqued the US Constitution for allowing it, as per his 1867 essay "No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority"...

"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist."

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