Jan 28th, 2013 - Asked about the Constitution

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I had someone ask why protect the constitution like it is the word of god. Once I got done sighing I looked at him and tried to be diligent with a concise explanation: The Constitution is the highest law in this country. It is our King, but instead of having a ruler to take our concerns too, we are suppose to take our concerns to ourselves, we are suppose to rule our own lives in this country. The Constitution is not there to rule us, instead it is there ONLY to limit the power of government. The reason we (by we I mean the government) must follow it and more importantly, follow due-process, and when is say that I mean not only the due process for you and I, but the responsibility of due process to changing a law is so that there remains a consistent, understandable ideal to follow. Due process ensures the absence of chaos and requires Logic and clarity of thought to prevail. There is a process for creating law. If all laws were equal, then one law could simply supersede the other. But the Constitution is not equal to laws, it is a supreme law above all other laws. Nothing can supersede it without the required due-process of a constitutional amendment. For example if we did not have the constitution or if congress could simply write laws that overrode the Constitution, then they could simply vote in a new law that took away the suffrage and gave them sole power to select a President. That is, they would pick someone they liked and we would be stuck with a government by Fiat. (yes, of course if something like that happened people would be outraged. But you should be outraged at any invasion on the Constitution). That is why the constitution is important, because it requires that the change of power go through a very serious process that a large, a super majority must agree on. So, when we talk about protecting the constitution we are talking about protecting our freedom to choose our own lives. It is not some old document, but a living document that represents each of today and all of our children and future generations.

His reply, "but guns....hurt people"

one more sigh and I said, "if pain and fear are so important, then you have bigger problems than guns. I need coffee."

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