What political party upholds the Constitution?

Answer 1

The Democratic party does, the republican party tries to destroy it.

Answer 2

Both major parties but NOT the liberterians.

The consitution is the ideals of a time long ago. The main concerns of today were not concieved of by the leaders of the past that wrote the constitution.

The constitution is not a document that sets down what is "right" for the country but a document that puts down rules on how our public will decide on the important issues.

Issues like environmentalism, civil rights and the current war, wiretapping, are not even covered by the constitution.

Those that try to claim a "constitutional" right to something are missing the main point of the constitution. The constitution sets down rules on how decisions on important matters are to be made, ie depending on what is to be decided it is the duty of the courts, the congress, president or the states to regulate various actions.

The Republicans and Democrats participate in that debate on the various issues of concern that need to be decided by our nation and attempt to write laws within the framework of the constitution, the most effective way to write laws that alow us to adapt to the changeing world is to establish consensus of the people and that is what our constitution does.


The Liberterians on the other hand (and some members of both parties) dodge the ideal of the constitution as a mechanism to adapt to social change. They pretend the constitution is an inflexible object that can be twisted to read whatever they are trying to prove.

The constitution itself has been ammended dozens of times, and some of those ammendments have themselves been reversed by the process outlined in the constitution.

The major parties have at times worked to change the constitution through ammendments and that is the SPIRIT of the constitiution itself, on the other hand the liberterians generally think of it as a inflexible document that solves all of our problems if only we read it the way they think it should be read.

We have a system in place to decide when various laws violate the constitution, it is not the libertarian party, it is the Supreme Court. It is the duty of the Supreme court to decide if the Patriot act is illegal not some late night Libertarian on the radio. THAT IS WHAT THE CONSTITUTION SAYS.

Most Liberarians distrust our government, but our constitution is a system of making our government trustable by the people. It is a system designed to build a majority to make consensus on the laws that will govern our nation. Libertarians are proud to be outside of the majority and therefore are not "playing the game" of building a consensus that is needed to govern a satisfied nation.

Answer 3

The Libertarian party comes as close as any of them but none of them uphold the parts that limit the power of government or the private banks that run the economy.

Answer 4

Both parties discuss upholding the Constitution when it's convenient.

Answer 5

In my experience, both main parties normally uphold the Constitution. But under Bush, normality isn't the word of the day. Bush is the exception to the rule, he respects the Bill of Rights about as much as he thinks about the color of his toilet paper. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if his toilet paper was specially made and imprinted with the Bill of Rights right on it.

Answer 6

Libertarians or Constitution party. The Republicans and Democrats seem bent on using the parts they like and disregarding the parts they don't like.

Answer 7

Ditto. Definitely Libertarians.

Answer 8

The Libertarians.

Answer 9

All of them, except possibly the current Bush administration who thinks the constitutuinal provisions don't apply to them.

Answer 10

Republicans, they make sure foreigners are naturalized before they become legal and have rights, and they protect the country against threats such as Islamofacists.