The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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.
It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.
And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.
The Supreme Court is not the impetus for constitutional change - we are.
Power's not what the Constitution was about.
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