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And, I agree we need to improve education. I try to talk to at least 5 kids a day about reading the founding documents, and then when I see them again, we discuss it, using real world examples. Some are, with what's going on in "X" Country, how would we use the First Amendment? Fifth? Tenth? Fourteenth? Then I give them the reading list I always carry with me, and that has been copied about 100 times this year alone.
Oh, it makes me so sad to see so much energy and desire to do good misspent in propping up a rotting piece of parchment which needs to be thrown into the garbage bin of history as soon as possible !!
Numan, the problem is not with the Constitution, it is with the jurisprudence that took a hard hook to the oligopoly, the plutocrats and the support of the corporatocracy at the expense of people, starting around 1880. Prior to that, the document worked better for the people it was enacted to serve.
Even in the past twenty-five years, the entirety of US jurisprudence, Constitutional and not, has gone hard line against the person in favor of the corporatocracy. Add to that, a pathologic fixation on the virtue of greed, and the whole system is ripping apart at the seams.
Don't get me wrong, there were loads of bad decisions prior to 1880, but the arc of jurisprudence was tending to the goals of the founding documents and the founding fathers.
There is also another aspect of legal decision making which concerns private interests and conflicts of interest. Judges, legislators, and administrators of agencies who operate with their own or their friends' interests over the impartial administration of law and policy has also swayed policy and law toward special interests. When law caters to special interests, it become indeterminate for practitioners and the public. Ultimately, those not benefiting from law see no need to adhere to the law. Special interests also veer into lawlessness, for their influence can shape the law to their own needs.
Today, we expect DeMint and his cohort to swing through the revolving door to collect their reward for public service. They consider it their just due. However, it used to be public servants never thought of such a thing, and even Presidents such as Jefferson and Adams dipped into their own pockets to pay for their own staffs, entertainment, and to fund state functions at the White House. Congressmen didn't take junkets paid by special interests, but paid their own way.
Perhaps the American public is growing sick enough of the present system to demand changes. Then again, perhaps not. In any event, it will take thousands with the strength of Hercules to cleanse the Augean stables, DC version.
When government is afraid of the people, there is liberty. The other way round gives us what we have now, and it's not pretty.
