Do you care about the constitution?

Question

Do you personally care about the constitution? As an individual and as an American citizen, do you give a crap? It doesn't seem like most of us do.

Answer 1

I care about the Constitution. Unfortunately, our legislators obviously do not.

People should not live in fear of their government. The government should live in fear of the people.

Our Constitution is being ignored in Washington. The Constitution is the only thing that stands between the government and our rights. These wealthy Congressmen are using the Constitution to roll their cigarrettes. I wish people would wake up and smell the burning paper.

Answer 2

My impression is that most of us are interested in what assures each of our constitutional rights under the Bill of. We spend a lot of time worrying about whether someone or something is infringing on those rights. Yet when I read the preamble it talks a great deal about our commonalities and our unity. The document declares its intent is a "more perfect union", justice, a common good or welfare, and a common defense. All this suggests deeper bonds between us and a greater harmony among us as a people than exists now between us individuals who have "rights". The emphasis on the individual, on the party dominance, and on specific personal choices dictated by a desire for political ascendancy poses a fundamental threat to our process. Commonality is undermined whenever a righteous individual seeks to impose a singular point of view on a plural majority.
Oddly the court's support of the individual actually infringes on the freedom of many others. We need to be much more tolerant of our real differences. Our founding fathers expected a great deal more of us as a people than we seem to be able to deliver.

Answer 3

As in any state, very few actually understand their Constitution and all its implications, both domestic and foreign.

When you look at the Constitution closely you will find contradictions. If an individual makes inflammatory remarks is this freedom of speech or does it interfere with an individual's right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Does the class system uphold that all men are equal.

The Constitution is what you take from it.

Answer 4

How can anyone not respect the constitution? That is what gives us our basic freedoms and prevents (or at least restricts) political and enforcement people from running all over us. It sets a standard which we use to develop law and process. Unfortunately there are some who have chosen to ignore the constitution and/or to make their own interpretation of it. People in the highest offices of America have destroyed confidence in the constitution by Bushwhacking it and twisting it to their benefit. We need to restore our faith in the constitution, protect the dignity of the document, rid ourselves of those politicians who choose to ignore it, prosecute those who violate it. Read it, think about it, consider what America would be like without the constitution; and think about what we will be like if we continue to allow people to ignore it!

Answer 5

Yes, I care about the Constitution. I agree with you that many Americans do not particularly care about it.

Every bit as much as I care about the Constitution, I care about how the document gets interpreted by the highest authority of the nation. And given Roe v. Wade, Lawrence v. Texas, and many others, it is not interpreted very well at all.

Answer 6

I spent 26 years of my life living an oath to that document. I believe in the US Constitution - but not in the American people.

Answer 7

I care about it. The government doesn't like it very much. It keeps getting in their way of utopia. But the Supreme Court is doing a very good job of getting rid of it. The war on drugs and the war on terror are the means to the end.

Answer 8

I want the US government to follow the Constitution. In fact, any time there is a meeting, a conference, a session in Congress...reading passages from the Constitution should be a requirement to get the meeting etc. started. Maybe it will eventually sink in.

Answer 9

I for one care about the constitution,however it has been corrupted,and perverted by the corporate war machine,determined to take every right drafted in the constitution away from the citzens,so they can use us as soldiers to fight their wars,and spill our blood,for their profit.

Answer 10

yes and no...... it's way too flexible......... it's set up so if people whine loud enough, no matter how stupid or immoral they're requests are, they'll make a law that affects everybody just to shut up a very select group of people (A group in which nobody cares about in the first place)...... on the other hand i do, for the most part agree with the original concrete rules it stands on........