If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.
It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.'
The military is faithful to the constitution. They will come in only to protect the people from the enemies of the state.
The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.
Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.