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When I scan just the first ten amendments, most are ignored or have been mutilated into nonexistence. The ones that are more or less in effect are those that have private organizations to secure them, such as the NRA which protects the second amendment.

I recall justice Scalia at a chitchat with a congressional committee within the last year. He rattled off a bunch of swell sounding rights from the constitution of the Soviet Union. The problem was that the government, people, everyone ignored them and they were never in force.

The point of Mark's book is to reestablish what we have lost, to restore the American Republic.

When I scan just the first ten amendments, most are ignored or have been mutilated into nonexistence.

Going back to my previous post in this thread, Levin overlooks the idea that parents are not making sure that their children are being taught the Constitution, particularly the Founding States' division of federal and state powers evidenced by the Constitution's Section 8 of Article I, Article V and the 10th Amendment.

We have a generation of low-information voters who are satisfied with letting others tell them what the Constitution says, as opposed to deciding for themselves what it says.