[Texas Eagle]

I used to fear opening up the Constitution...now I think it’s the only thing that can stop this country from another civil war.

If politicians will ignore the Constitution as it is currently written, what makes anyone think they'll abide by some new Constitution?

[Publius]

The federal government observes the Constitution to the very letter. Unfortunately, it's the Living Constitution that it observes. This is the Constitution of penumbras and emanations, the Constitution whose meaning changes even though the actual words remain the same, the Constitution empretzeled by 200 years of case law.

It does not observe the Constitution of Original Intent that the late Robert Bork named "the Constitution in exile."

Only by amending the Constitution can the loopholes introduced during the New Deal be sealed, especially the Great Loophole created by Wickard v. Filburn. That 1942 loophole wrapped the Interstate Commerce Clause in Article I, Section 8 around the entire Constitution and gave the federal government power over everything it wished. When Nancy Pelosi said that nothing that Congress does has anything to do with the Constitution, it's the Great Loophole to which she is referring.

[BobL]

“If politicians will ignore the Constitution as it is currently written, what makes anyone think they’ll abide by some new Constitution?”

I worry about that true. We have to HOPE on that...because the alternative is just too horrible to imagine.