The Constitution has always been a flawed document (as has every document created by man) and was just words on paper. The real magic was in the people who believed those words and abided by them. Obama will either be a tyrant or a discarded wanna be. It depends on the number of people who still believe those words and are willing to abide by them. Our destiny has always depended on that.
Peter,
It is PRECISELY that human component of our system that currently frightens hell out of me — just as it has those before us.
“Yes, we did produce a near perfect republic but will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path to destruction.” Thomas Jefferson
“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; if it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.” — Judge Learned Hand, 1944
We SEEM to have become a disturingly CHARACTERLESS people and SEEM to be poised to elect a deeply CHARACTERLESS, CORRUPT leader.
Join me in praying that my cynicism is unwarranted and that I am wrong.
In other words, the Constitution is only as powerful as the people who believe it. It is both its flaw and its strength. It’s up to Americans to uphold it and this American only realized how much we dance on the edge of a knife.