"Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law, it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."
. . . Justice Louis D. Brandeis: Olmstead v. U.S.
In considering the above, keep in mind that the Constitution is supposed to be, and once was the supreme law of the land, and an overwhelming majority of the people understood and celebrated it as the bedrock of their individual liberties and freedoms.
In America today, the government has expanded, and almost daily further expands far beyond the bounds prescribed for it by that once revered document. The areas in which the citizenry is free correspondingly have shrunk and continue to shrink. This occurs without protest as an increasingly decadent population complacently accepts the comforts of dependent serfdom as the little noted price of sustenance at the expense of the public treasury.
The people have the right to alter the Constitution. But it should be done after honest and open debate in accordance with the charter document's provisions for its amendment. Instead, it is done in surreptitious increments by unfaithful elected officials who, with no thought at all, routinely and without hesitation or care break their sworn vows to defend and protect the Constitution.
The legal system -- lawyers and judges -- together with the media and virtually all of our elite institutions participate in the relegation of the wonderful work of the country's founders to the dustbin of history. They have hijacked the Constitution and so twisted its intent and meaning that it no longer is understandable by, or meaningful to the ordinary citizens for whom it was written.
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