[Servant of the Cross]

Bankrupt, both morally and economically, Time magazine once again panders to the socialistic left with yet another pathetic screed against a sacred institutional (God, marriage, Constitution, etc.), always at a sacred time (Indepence Day in this instance)

Time: Does It Matter? No, not in the least. Completely WRONG; about everything. FAIL.

TIME SUCKS.

[Bryanw92]

Perhaps we should treat the Constitution like the muzzies treat the “Holy Quran”—you mess with it, we keel you!

[VRW Conspirator]

“We cannot let the Constitution become an obstacle to a future with a sensible health care system, a globalized economy, and evolving sense of civil and political rights.”

Another claim to the moral high ground, brought to you by the "new" gnostic generation at Time magazine. After all, THEY know better than you and I.

[ASA Vet]

Kaslin beat you by 24 minutes

[Texas Fossil]

Yes, TIME truly sucks!

If there were ever a magazine that deserves to go out of business, it is TIME.

[dirtboy]

That picture is just about every liberal’s fantasy regarding the Constitution (just as long as the 1st Amendment is snipped out and kept).

[Darkwolf377]

TIME will probably make that cover photo into a print suitable for hanging—the X-mas gift on every liberal’s list!

[VRW Conspirator]

And another thing:

The question on the cover page asks, "Does the [constitution} still matter?"

The question is framed in such a way as to presume that the falsehood is correct and you are forced to defend the accusation as if it were true.

In other words, have you stopped beating your wife yet? Typical pinko commie BS!

[Westbrook]

From another old document that the “Progressives” dismiss as irrelevant ...

Proverbs 22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

Jeremiah 6:16
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

[Sherman Logan]

The problem we have is that our Constitution was very carefully and effectively designed to create a dysfunctional government, one that would have great trouble doing much of anything. That’s the whole point behind checks and balances and all that.

It works reasonably well as long as what the government is trying to do is limited in scope.

However, in recent decades many if not perhaps most Americans want the government to do much more, similar to the activist governments of Europe and elsewhere.

But the Constitution prevents this from being done efficiently, so the government responds by rewriting the Constitution by judicial fiat or by just ignoring it.

I suggest we either ought to redesign our Constitution to one suited to an activist government (as we are allowed to do by the Constitution itself) or return to a minimalist government role in society. This half and half stuff is quite literally killing us.

[Paladin2]

Time needs to be financially shredded.

[adorno]

Apparently, to Time, and to liberals, the constitution should be completely flexible to allow whatever seems to be the popular and important issue or feeling of the day. That would be a recipe for chaos.

A constitution without meaning, and which can be redrawn according to the latest agenda, is no constitution at all.

If we want to end up a country without laws, or laws that can be bent depending upon the latest wishes of whoever is in power at the moment, then the constitution should be declared without value, and we can declare ourselves Somalia West.

[philman_36]

The feds can tax you because of the Taxing Clause of the Constitution (though even then only four types of taxes are legal—not the mandate).
It's a shame that the Ken's didn't state what those four were. They expanded on the other issues they raised.
And as far as I'm concerned there are only three types of taxes.

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

The flag of the U. S. will use cloths of color, red, white and blue, be of a specific dimension and be governed by certain rules of display; but the red, white and blue will each have their own distinct meanings.

[Starstruck]

My simplistic view of the Constitution is that it was written to allow individual liberties first and foremost, folowed by states rights, and finally a Federal Government whose soul responsibility is to ensure and protect those liberies and rights.

Over the years our elected leaders have let us down and have flipped the entire document. The Fed has taken all the things they were only suppose to protect.

Time is merely justifying what already is.

[grey_whiskers]

The Constitution is the only thing securing the liberals' safety.

(Who are the "bitter clingers" again? And it was their hero, Mao, who opined that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.")

Cheers!

[ontap]

Yes the constitution still matters...... Time magazine does not matter!!! It was bought for one dollar.

[indthkr]

Time Magazine - bird cage liner posing as journalism.

[mjp]

It portrays the Constitution as an outmoded document that we should ignore to whatever extent is expedient to pursue someone’s vision of a better society: “

Being an obstacle to someone's vision of a better society is exactly what the constitution is for.The visions of some is not a justification for the use of force to violate the natural rights of others.