Baraka_Guru

So you'd rather a group of dead men be the prime interpreters of a document that said dead men wrote to prevent such forces as aristocracy and tyranny from exerting power over the people?

Please tell me I don't need to remind you that the foundational idea behind a constitutional republic is that the people retain supreme power over the government via a constitution.

The American government is beholden to the Constitution, not its authors. The founders aren't a kind of American pantheon.

What next, obsessing over what Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John intended?

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot