Leftwing Newspaper Gone Too Far?

[SkyMutt]

The US Constitution was put in place by people. It can be rendered obsolete by people.
It is actually a well-established principle of representative (parliamentary) democracy that voters cannot pass laws which are unable to be amended/rescinded.
In fact, it would be UNDEMOCRATIC if that were otherwise.

What you said was "No parliament can pass a law that binds future parliaments." The fact that it is possible to amend the Constitution of the United States does not mean that the Congress is not bound by it, quite the contrary. Congress by itself cannot amend the Constitution. Though what popeyespappy says in regard to the amendment process is technically more or less true, it is actually not easy to amend the Constitution. (Reference)

Constitutional protections of minorities are very precious and ought not be taken for granted.

Agreed?

I question why you consider it necessary to make such a statement. I have been supporting the position that the Constitution of the United States is constructed in such a way as to prevent a tyranny of the majority. This does not mean that I consider the protection of minority rights to be something that can be taken for granted, since the Constitution is not perfect, and the interpretation and enforcement of it are even less perfect. If minority rights were something that could be taken for granted, the Constitution would not be written so as to protect them from the majority.

To repeat: the prevention of a tyranny of the majority is an integral principle of the Constitution, inherent in its construction. That principle is provisional only in the sense that the Constitution itself is provisional, as any law ever written (including the Ten Commandments) is provisional.