Is The Constitution Dead?

All too often when I propose returning America’s monetary and banking systems to constitutional principles, or revitalizing “the Militia of the several States”, I find myself assailed with the retort that “the Constitution is dead”; that attempts to apply its true principles–its “original intent”–as a means of limiting the powers of contemporary public officials are futile; and that my exhortations to the contrary are irrelevant, impotent, and even innately, if innocuously, screwball in character. Although no man is likely to be taken for a prophet in his own country, one’s being spurned in that role does not, by itself, prove his pronouncements erroneous. Especially when the argument against his prophetic gift is as self-evidently nonsensical as that “the Constitution is dead”.