[Olog-hai]

I know what he said about the Constitution, but that does not mean he was calling for its replacement, remember. There are always corollaries: if the US Constitution is not adequate for the government of those other than the moral and religious (it was not supposed to be; that was the power the state governments kept for themselves), then it is still more than adequate to the punishment of the immoral and irreligious thanks to its limited powers and the scope of the powers of the states.

[The Unknown Republican]

You completely misunderstood my point or that of Adams. You must first address the morals and virtues of the populace if the Constitution is to have any binding meaning upon the American people. Otherwise it isn’t worth the paper it’s written on and people are free to ignore it. You seem to believe the Constitution has mystical properties of enforcement outside of the will of the people to be bound by it. That is at best naive, at worst ignorant. Either way, you keep on believing that while the barbarians are at the gates.