"Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths?"
Anybody who looks to the federal government to protect us from the federal government is seriously delusional. And it was the constitution (bow your head, if not genuflect) that allowed this monstrosity that we live under. Nothing really changed on Thursday. Same old, same old.
"Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths?"