You have come a long way in discussing the amendment process. From an constitutional process to tampering.
I had overlooked the notion that someone would view the constitutional amendment process as tampering.
I thought it was clear that I was not referring to the 17 amendments after the ratified Bill of Rights. The words have been twisted, convoluted, and prostituted but remain unchanged. Not a single legislative constitutional power has been added.
The salvation of the founder’s vision for America exist in the Constitution’s words, and yes, may god bless those words.
You have every right to stand on principle. Just as we have the right to go to the polls every two years like the sheep that we are and send good constitutional conservatives to that meatgrinder in DC, only to see them chewed up, spit out and returned to us at re-election time as so much baloney.
You are not the only one who wants us to behave, by the way. The entrenched establishment of both parties loves things just the way they are. They, like you, pray that we continue to hope for Divine Intervention and ignore the solution to the problem that the Founders wrote right into that document you pretend to adore.
You simply cannot have it both ways: If you believe in the Constitution, then you believe in it in its entirety. You cannot cherry-pick your Articles. James Madison, among others, allowed for the fallibility of men, himself included, and helped write the remedy.
Please, take a moment and read those 143 words... words, by your own testament, blessed by God.