That should be 1789; made the correction in a subsequent post.
Lets see, we've eliminated slavery, child labor, Jim Crow and trusts just to name a few of the many ways in which society has advanced.
So how has this degraded our system?
7 out of every ten children born in urban America are fatherless.
40 million children have been killed in the womb since 1973.
Justice Kennedy tells me that homosexuality is deserving of the utmost respect in contradiction to all major religions of the world.
The Ninth Circuit has oredered the cessation of the Pledge of Allegaince with the words "under God" included.
The Eleventh Circuit has oredered the cessation of VOLUNTARY prayer at the evening meals at a public institution.
The fed circuit court in Texas has ordered high school football players not to pray before games.
The public schools are rife with bananas, prophylactics and "alternative lifestyles".
Illegal immigration is out of control.
The Ten Commandments are becoming verboten in the public square.
The kid at the store has to use a calculator when I buy something for 99 cents and I give her a dollar to figure out how much change I get.
The government takes half my money without so much as a thank you.
For twenty years, prior to Bush, the jihadists used Americans for target practice without ever once paying a price.
Yeah, everything is simply hunky dory.
"...But the Supreme Court soon found other uses for the Fourteenth Amendment. It began striking down state laws as unconstitutional. This was an important new twist in American constitutional law.
Hamilton, in arguing for judicial review in Federalist No. 78, had envisioned the Court as a check on Congress, resisting the illicit consolidation or centralization of power. And our civics books still describe the function of checks and balances in terms of the three branches of the federal government mutually controlling each other. But in fact, the Court was now countermanding the state legislatures, where the principle of checks and balances had no meaning, since those state legislatures had no reciprocal control on the Court. This development eventually set the stage for the convulsive Supreme Court rulings of the late twentieth century, from Brown v. Board of Education to Roe v. Wade.
The big thing to recognize here is that the Court had become the very opposite of the institution Hamilton and others had had in mind. Instead of blocking the centralization of power in the federal government, the Court was assisting it..."