[Huck]

It is my FRiend and this is the nature of sin. We are all fallen and all fallible. We have all missed the mark. When you trust anyone other than God your trust is misplaced. Men will interpret any document written — and they can choose to ignore it. I like your idea of lack of implied powers by the way. Would need a mechanism for very fast modification though, when unforseen emergencies arise, and that very mechanism will make the entire document subject to rapid change limited only by the politics of the moment . . . which would then make the document meaningless and constantly changed. it would end up being one of those state constitutions with 2,400 amendments, each one a field open to the lawyers and judges to write law

It does seem like we're chained to the ground, doesn't it?

[Mere Survival]

In Franklin’s speech on the other thread, Franklin points out that a moral group of “Governors” is a necessity for good government and that at some point, when the population has degenerated, despotism arises as a “necessity.” I hope we Americans truly are exceptional and can turn back from tyranny when we are on this brink . . . and I know of no historical example of this . . . so it will truly be exceptional. That is why I think the fighting spirit right now is more important than the Constitutional details of an imaginary document produced at an indefinite future time by unknown people.