[B4Ranch]

The Constitution is a guidline to government that has been skirted in every possible way by both democrats and republicans. The trajedy is that the people do not realize how important the Constitution is to our children.

I presume most people are similar to myself and have no idea how to oppose both parties at the same time when they violate the Constitution, ie. Patroit Act.

[ForOurFuture]

Scalia's judicial philosophy, explained in the article accurately, has long puzzled me. A case in point is term limits. Scalia has voted in favor of term limits being Constitutional. His reasoning is that the Constitution doesn't forbid them. This is true, but when the Constitution spells out qualifications for Federal office such as age and citizenship, any qualifications not mentioned in that section supercede the Constitution, and are therefore unconstitutional. A state mandating Congressional term limits would add to the particular clause restrictions that are not already there. This, IMO, violates the letter of the Constitution.

[Commander8]

I believe the Constitution was written to prevent America from sliding into two extremes:tyrrany in the form of monarchy and tyranny in the form of mob rule.

[dcwusmc]

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