Originally Posted by Curious George

You can't really expect a mainstream candidate to support that position though. The truth is that, in most cases, the constitution, as it is written, no longer applies. Congress has passed so many laws that just completely override or abridge it over the years and, in most cases, the Supreme Court has incredibly upheld those laws as constitutional.

So now whenever Congress passes a law that says a President can do this or that, they follow that law and not the constitution, truly believing that what they are doing is constitutional because the Supreme Court has said that it is and the rest of the country abides that decision.

It doesn't matter what the constitution says, it matters what the Supreme Court says it means (which can be anything, including the exact opposite of it's literal interpretation). As long as everyone agrees with that, Presidents will continue to do what is legally allowed and those decisions will be widely accepted as the normal way things are done. To expect a candidate to go against the norm in such a "radical" way is to expect him to be a radical and to never get elected. So you'll probably never vote for a winner.