[conservatism_IS_compassion]

We are told that it is unreasonable - even foolish - to expect that the Framers could have written a Constitution suitable alike for a society of husbandman and a society of multinational corporations, to say nothing of one as well adapted to the age of the musket and sailing ship as to the age of intercontinental nuclear-tipped missiles. As the problems have changed, the argument goes, so must the manner in which they are confronted and solved, and the Constitution cannot be allowed to stand in the way. Indeed, there is no reason to allow it to stand in the way, we are told, because the Framers intended it to be flexible

. . . which is why their handiwork includes Article V, Amendments.

[loveliberty2]

Thank you!

As Berns quoted Hamilton:

"Until the people have, by some solemn and authoritative act, annulled or changed the established form, it is binding upon them collectively, as well as individually; and no presumption or even knowledge of their sentiments, can warrant their representatives [the executive, judiciary, or legislature]; in a departure from it prior to such an act." - Alexander Hamilton

Hamilton's words are a rebuke to the current President's concoction of an "excuse" for a "departure" from the Constitution's structuring and limitations on Executive power and protection of "the People's" right to have their elected representatives in the Legislative Branch to "make" the laws, and requiring the Executive, by solemn oath, to "execute" those laws faithfully.