[Osborn F Enready]

Fonceai said: "Dear Gov't, We don't want to die. Please organize and send our Armed Forces to nation X and obliterate their ability to bring war to us. Then come home. Hugs and kisses, The Citizens"

Well, basicly, yes. But I think it would be more along the lines of people writing and saying "dear government", we think you should pay attention and propose options concerning "x issue" in "x nation", and discuss our responsibility if any, and our options or support for intervention.

As citizens, we pay close attention to the world through the media. Look at the foreign aid for any given cause, and where the bulk of it comes from.

Fonceai said: So would the Constitution need to be stripped and given definitions, or would it need to be interpreted and re-written, once and for all, in modern language, to eliminate discrepancy?

I think Constitutional scholars, historical education leaders, and all the surrounding documents should be used to identify and compile a dictionary of the words and terms listed, at the time when it was written, and put into a dictionary of terms to be used when reading the document for any case, at any level of law.

There is no mystery what was intended, as the surrounding documents and briefs well describe the thoughts and "context" of the intentions, especially when looking at the first years of how the courts operated. I really think the only people who have a problem with this are overt progressives, and extremists from each partisan partition, which have a vested intrest in using force to enforce laws like prohibition laws, or "protecting people from themselves". As noble as it may be, government and force are not the method to achieve any success in terms of prohibition of anything other than that which directly violates the rights of others.

Fonceai said: Funny you should use the analogy of a Captain and XO. I actually know exactly what you mean. Also ironic that the President is, technically, the Executive Officer of the government.

Well, I am ex-Navy and I know you are well familiar with the "chain of command" in the service. I wish more people understood that the people were actually the Captain, in the government chain of command though.
The great thing about our nation was that even if the XO gives bad commands without permission of the Captain, and the entire crew follows it, the Captain can still envoke his authority to stop the entire process by any means necessary. It is a defined, tangible reality, and the meaning behind the quotes :

“And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the right of resistance? Let them take arms...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
-Thomas Jefferson

“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.”
-Aristotle, "Politics"

“The peaceable part of mankind will be continually overrun by the vile and abandoned while they neglect the means of self-defence. The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside.... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them; . . . the weak will become prey.”
-Thomas Paine (1737-1809), in "Thoughts on Defensive War", in The Pennsylvania Magazine, July 1775

“A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country...”
-James Madison

“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.”
-Noah Webster

“I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.”
-George Mason

“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”
-The Constitution of the United States, sovereign standing law

(I am posting these for anyone reading, not just for you Fonce. Don't want you to think I am picking a fight here.)

Fonceai said: To be even more detailed, I think of the process of communication on a U.S. submarine. The Captain speaks, the XO relays commands, even if it's to people in the same room, and vice versa. That's how it should be with the gov't.

I agree.