Constitutional principles are all beliefs. In fact, IMO, that is all they are. I happen to agree with those principles. I happen to love those principles. Like many people here I have had family members fight for those principles. The Constitution is a whole bunch of beliefs written down by a group of people a long time ago. Good thing they could work together and get a job done instead of spending their energies on throwing mud and setting up obstalces for themselves.
I am not flaming you, esp. sometimes I feel the same as you do, but I question how concerned you really are, when you leave the deabte at the point of finding common ground with others to solve a problem.
Finding "common ground" is a pig in a poke. I find this to be true even at CPAC. (I respect your posn. tho.)