I rely far more on the old answers because they just make far more sense.
"The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had already long ceased to be in any real sense a republic at all. When the sturdy Roman plebeian, who lived by his own labor, who voted without reward according to his own convictions, and who with his fellows formed in war the terrible Roman legion, had been changed into an idle creature who craved nothing in life save the gratification of a thirst for vapid excitement, who was fed by the state, and who directly or indirectly sold his vote to the highest bidder, then the end of the Republic was at hand, and nothing could save it. The laws were the same as they had been, but the people behind the laws had changed, and so the laws counted for nothing.”
Teddy Roosevelt on the Fall of the Republic
Do you see parallels when socialism-seeking liberals re-interpret the Constitution's words to avoid amending them? How long before America ceases to be a Republic and becomes the dreaded democracy?
Teddy Roosevelt on the Fall of the Republic
That bears repeating.
Too many people on FR genuflect to the words in the Constitution , which are fine words, but fail to grasp that liberals laugh at our devotion to those solemn words and use them against us as a weapon.
Justice Scalia intimated as much when in a debate with Justice Breyer he said: "words mean something".