[P-Marlowe]

IBTZ

[Palter]

Obviously, not my view, just posting for more fuel.

[NohSpinZone]

Screw you, limeys. We know the Constitution are the word of men...men brilliant enough to rescue millions from tyranny and forge a country that is now the most powerful, successful democracy in the history of the world. We now have traitors among us who would “transform” this great nation forever. The Constitution is the guiding principle we need to get us back on the right track.

[The_Reader_David]

I'm not sure why a thread or poster should be zotted for posting the Wet-Tory view from The Economist. Sure, it's not sound, but we've had long, fruitful discussion threads based on posting of looney left articles. Or is this an example of the law-of-small-differences: center-right views that are just to the left of the position dominant on FR get zotted as a threat before obviously leftish stuff?

[HangThemHigh]

Wouldn’t it be splendid if all human morals could be summed up in 10 commandments?

Brevity does not indicate any unsuitability of purpose.

[Jim Scott]

The British author of this Economist piece doesn't understand the U.S. constitution and totally misses the point of why the Tea Party uses it as it's anchor, it's 'bible', if you will. The condescending tone of the article (and the cartoon) is palpable and offensive.

Atheists often will point out that the bible doesn't address drug use, nuclear weapons or some other modern-day problem, so using it as your guide to life is pointless. They just don't get it. As the bible offers a guide to dealing with all these issues in a general way that can be easily directed into concrete action by the reader so the U.S. constitution is a guide as to how to conduct our representative democracy.

We've gone far afield from those principles in the last 100 years, something the author tacitly admits. The title of the piece "The perils of constitution-worship" pretty much show the author's British bias and render the rest of the article both predictable and relatively useless, except as an example of why leftists will never understand the Tea Party and the U.S. constitution it is based on. Their loss.

[xzins]

Should gays marry? No answer there.

What an ignorant comment by an ignoramus! Any power not specifically delegated to the Congress belongs to the states or the people.

The Constitution says the people's vote in California is the ruling law. Some asswipe judge says it falls into his personal baliwick.

These people are such liars.

[cookcounty]

"Wouldn't it be splendid if the solutions to America’s problems could be written down in a slim book no bigger than a passport that you could slip into your breast pocket? That, more or less, is the big idea of the tea-party movement, "

Nobody believes that the Constitution holds all the answers to all the problems, but it surely holds the answer to protecting individuals from a predatory, power-hungry state.