(December 15, 2013 at 11:26 pm)Brakeman Wrote: ...it is the current population of Americans that honor an evolved constitution that protects us.We are supposed to be a country ruled by laws, not men. The danger of an 'evolved' constitution is that it allows our rulers to slowly undermine its protections by making it mean what they want.
(December 15, 2013 at 11:26 pm)Brakeman Wrote: The constitution is only as powerful as the ruling class want it to be.The ruling class is only as powerful as the people allow it to be. If we do not hold them to what the constitution says vs. what they want it say then we invite tyranny, example: Kelo