I had someone tell me the other day that they were so fed up with our government and that they wanted to get rid of the Constitution. "It's old and out-dated," they said. Get rid of the Constitution?!
I can understand if people disagree with parts of it or wish to change sections of it, but to GET RID of it?
Get rid of the only thing that has kept our country together for the past 200 years? Get rid of the supreme law of the land? The law that protects and defines some of our most basic rights?
This piece of paper, with the right principles on it, and the will of the people behind it, is the thing that has kept our country great! It is the thing that has protected and kept our liberties for us for the last eight generations! No other country has enjoyed such freedom!
Since that day the Constitution became law in 1787, the rest of the world has studied our Constitution and has copied the idea of a central government that has specifically limited power.
Our Constitution is the basic reason why for so many years everyone else in the world has sought to come to the US. They see the liberties we have and they want the same freedoms that we have always enjoyed; and which we have all too often taken for granted.
The Constitution is what keeps our President from using his power as commander and chief to execute the leaders of Congress as traitors and inform the people afterward. It keeps our government from deciding that for the good of 'the nation' they will suspend our most basic rights... it keeps us from falling into the dismal state of affairs that happened to Stalinist Russia, Castro's Cuba, and Hitler's Germany.
Without our Constitution we would ceace to be the United States... for it is the only reason that the States ever became united adn became one nation. They realized that to create a larger government would give the opportunity for greater breaches of their personal liberties. The only reason that they allowed the Federal governmet to be created was because of this piece of paper promising what the government would and would not do, and how exactly it would run. Without it we have anarchy and we're left with only our State Constitutions to specify how we allow our representatives to govern us.
