Sophomoric, perhaps even puerile.
I am not the most eloquent person, and I regret sounding puerile or sophomoric about something which means so much to me, and that is the fact that I was so immensely fortunate to have been born in the United States of America, when I born here. I am not an historian, but to me, it seems that being an American means you are one of a very small group of people ever born, free people.
The Constitution makes my freedom possible. It is a necessary but not sufficient reason for our freedom. We also need men and women of good faith who understand the significance of the Constitution to our freedom.
The principal criticism of leftists and liberals is their disdain for freedom. "Our own," to my mind, are those who understand and are grateful for the blessings of liberty we have.