American Memory
American Memory
August 16, 2004
 
Why the Constitution Isn’t the Bible by James Leroy Wilson
What I am suggesting is that the Constitution, if the letter of its law was obeyed, would be preferable to the government we have now. But we can’t go back. If the Constitution itself was so good, it would have been obeyed from the very beginning. But near the very beginning, it was violated, and has been violated ever since. Whether from a self-perceived higher ethical law, or expediency, the Constitution will always be violated. It has not been, is not now, nor ever will be, a check on despotism.

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