[serinde]

IMHO the Constitution of the United States is the most important political document ever created. Its creation within a nation of limited literacy and education is amazing.

I absolutely agree. Now if we can get all our "educated" officials to agree and quit trashing it, this country would be better off.

[justshutupandtakeit]

While my appreciation of the Constitution is unbounded, it is not an easy document to understand and those who say it is either are ideologues who don't comprehend it or those with an agenda which essentially says if I don't like it it is unconstitutional.

Jeffersonian political philosophy severely damaged the national comprehension of the constitution. Thank God there was a man of towering intellectual capacity, John Marshall, to take over from Hamilton as Jefferson's nemisis. This did not prevent the Civil War from flowing from Jefferson's misrepresentations of the meaning of the federal government and its constitutional base.