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Methinks that our US constitution is probably the best ever scribed set of laws that a society can live by, recently it seems that the way our "living interpreters" who chose to adopt a very liberal interpretation of these words, make me think that the very paper our words have been written on, is good only to line the bottom of our bird cage with. When a society and its best legal minds not only seeks but succeeds in "re-painting" its meaning to their own vices, prejudices, and excuses, I begin to wonder wether TJ's advice should be heeded. I then think, not if, or how, but, when.

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."