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What Adams meant was that if the People become irreligious and immoral, there is nothing in the Constitution to save them from tyranny.

While it is true that nothing in the Constitution authorizes the federal government to impose gay marriage on the states, there is also nothing in the Constitution that prevents each state, or eventually all the states, from redefining or abolishing marriage.

Only a moral and religious people can protect THEMSELVES from abominations. In the absence of such a people, the Constitution will simply slip into desuetude.

Because the American People have accepted government schooling, the fed, the income tax, welfare, abortion, and gay marriage, the Constitution is defunct. There was never anything IN the Constitution that could prevent it.

While it is true that nothing in the Constitution authorizes the federal government to impose gay marriage on the states, there is also nothing in the Constitution that prevents each state, or eventually all the states, from redefining or abolishing marriage …

Incorrect interpretation. The First Amendment, as part of the Constitution, is supreme law of the land, and nothing may prevent free exercise of religion, i.e. so long as said law is upheld. (Which, of course, is about as upheld as Article 4 Section 4 Clause 2 with respect to invasion particularly by illegals.)

Because the American People have accepted government schooling, the fed, the income tax, welfare, abortion, and gay marriage, the Constitution is defunct. There was never anything IN the Constitution that could prevent it …

Not Amendments 9 and 10?

There is a delicate balance to enumeration of laws and rights. As Tacitus stated, “Laws were most numerous when the state was most corrupt” . . . and as the Bible notes, it is the leaders of a country, whether political or moral, that cause the people to err.