Both the right and left want to say we are a nation of laws. Every culture is predicated upon some ideological basis. With respect to the Constitution, it is considered as the
supreme law of the land by the legalists and the politicians. But which Constitution? It's been reinterpreted almost 180 degrees opposite of where we started out. Those who were the pioneers of that document had this to say:
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On every question of construction, let us carry ourselves back to the
time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested
in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out
of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in
which it was passed."
Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, June 12, 1823, The
Complete Jefferson, p. 322.
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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government. ...If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield." George Washington, Farewell Address
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp
If we were to "
free" ourselves of the Constitution, what law do you think we would obey? Some want to institute Sharia Law; others advocate secular humanism (the unofficial religion of the U.S.); some want anarchy, One World Government, the ultimate POLICE STATE, National Socialism, Democratic Socialism, etc., etc.
Perhaps you prefer democracy?
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: "From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage."
You don't like the Constitution. What law do you want to live by?