[blackdog]

It's technical application is supported by it's mandate, not your likes or dislikes. I'm sure you do not love it's first amendment and it's application to cases such as protests at military funerals or when Sid Blumenthal tells lies in front of cameras about grand jury questioning. It's that safety of steering clear of empathy or emotional support which makes it so valuable. I do not diminish it's value to our society, which goes far beyond love or emotion.

Do I love it's liberties? You bet! Do I love that it's main purpose is to limit the powers of government in favor of the individual and state's rights? You Bet!

The constitution is supported and enforced by the judiciary which is supposed to be impartial, and in as such, unemotional and unbiased. In order to do their jobs they need to promote it's restrictions to the state and federal over-reaches. By implying hate or love in it's supporting decisions, there is no constitution, just a bad decision made with regret or optimism.

[Talisker]

I'm sure you do not love it's first amendment and it's application to cases such as protests at military funerals or when Sid Blumenthal tells lies in front of cameras about grand jury questioning.

You're wrong - I love the first amendment under any conditions, because I know what it means, and I don't expect it to be able to independently hunt down every criminal. I trust that other ways will eventually get them, without violating any rights.

It's technical application is supported by it's mandate, not your likes or dislikes.

LOL, okay, yeah, it is. But then again, so is marriage. In other words, the concept of "mandate" covers a lot of different ground, depending on application.

You're talking about the structure, function and application of the legal status of constiutions in the running of governments. I'm talking about what makes the American Constitution unique from any other constitution. In addition, I'm stating that the invocation of natural rights as the foundation of that mandate is so singular that it is worthy of actual reverence, and is also so extraordinary that it structurally and functionally differentiates the American Constitution from all other constitutions, of necessity.

Case in point: All other constitutions deny the people sovereignty over the government. Thus, to enslave the people, they proceed in a straightforward fashion. However, it has been necessary to create an entire false government overlay in America, of administrative law privileges, to fool the people into slavery, because the American Constitution of natural rights, as written, is unbreakable. That secret double-government necessity doesn't occur anywhere else in the world, and is proof of the uniqueness of the American Constitution.