[Logical me]

We don’t have much left of it.

[Lazamataz]

"What if", nothing.

This is how it is now.

[CGASMIA68]

We don’t

[Slyfox]

The Constitution is only as strong as the people who are willing to stand up for it. That is why everyone in office or in an position of responsibility has had to take an oath and swear to defend it.

The ideas contained within it are words worth dying for.

[C210N]

What If We Didn't Have a Constitution?

What would be different today? Anything?

[VanDeKoik]

Look out the window.

[servantboy777]

Huh? Constitution? What’s that?

[backwoods-engineer]

It was very hard for me to admit, but I finally have come to terms with it: our Constitution has failed as a guarantor of individual liberties. Perhaps it should have been amended more often to limit the central government, but it wasn't, and now the Constitution is ignored with impunity at the Federal, state, and local levels.

We must face facts: the Constitution did not stop tyranny.

We the People should have stopped it, but we didn't.

[Leep]

What if the gayzo-thugo-commies provoke a second civil war and what if we annihilate them in a matter of weeks?

[Blood of Tyrants]

“What if those in government began cutting constitutional corners about 100 years ago and overlooked prohibitions and limitations in the Constitution because they enjoyed exercising power over others and because they thought they knew what was best for everyone?”

Yep, the runaway government began under the socialist Woodrow Wilson when the 16th and 17th Amendments were ratified and when the War on Drugs began.

[mjp]

A written constitution is supposed to limit public officials to defined functions and procedures.No constitution or one that is ignored would permit statism, totalitarianism, and tyranny, where the power of rulers is concentrated at the expense of natural rights and individual freedom.

[ex-snook]

Losing it from the top down since Presidents from Truman have gone to war without a formal war declaration from Congress. What else matters?

[Tench_Coxe]

"What if all this is happening right under our noses? What do we do about it?"

The answer lies here: "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. "

[DungeonMaster]

If we didn’t have a Constitution we’d have a muslim president.

[central_va]

A Constitution not followed is worse than no Constitution at all. This sad state of affairs breeds contempt for the government in the intelligent, and a sentimental belief in the phony protections it was supposed to have in the weak minded. As such the Constitution now provides a fig leaf for the naked aggression of the socialist statist agenda.

[Political Junkie Too]

These days, the only thing the Constitution does is give 546 people job titles. Once they get those jobs, it seems to be "anything goes" from then on.

-PJ

[aMorePerfectUnion]

What makes anyone think we still have The Constitution???

[SvenMagnussen]

What if all this is happening right under our noses? What do we do about it?"

Call for a convention to establish a national governing document. The US Constitution was established with competing plans, presentation, compromise and ratification.

[gattaca]

bump

[bmwcyle]

We seem to have lost it already.