The vast majority of US Citizens are woefully derelict in their duty as Citizens.
Meaning what, they don't like jury duty?
Oh, wait, I know. They don't vote, right? You want compulsory voting?
No? Do you mean, pay their taxes? Hmm.
This is especially true when it comes to their understanding of the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution is the single most important covenant ever written as it is the contract which ensures the freedoms and rights of the people. It is what separates the Citizens of the US from the subjects of all other countries.
Please, stop with the worship.
Most of what it talks about is how to organize the federal government, and as an afterthought (literally) it protects some of the rights of citizens. While there were some key innovations at the time it was written, there were also disastrous oversights such as an utter failure to end the horrible travesty of slavery. The Framers could not have foreseen how it would turn our nation into a "vetocracy," in which it is all too easy to throw sand in the gears, including later inventions like the filibuster. Many of its authors were concerned about maintaining their own power, as shown by the compromise of a bicameral legislature. It never says "government must be small" or "the federal government is barred from providing safety nets to older citizens" or "the federal government cannot regulate consumer safety," or whatever other libertarian fantasy you are indulging in today.
You are right that it separates us from other nations -- but that's not really in favor of the US. Many other nations have abandoned the American formula, in favor of much better articulations of the rights of citizens and residents; e.g. Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms is now a model around the world.
It is not however being followed and abided by, as the Citizens have failed to uphold their duty to educate themselves of the history and the law that the Constitution represents. They fail to understand the principals and the logic that ensures that the people remain the masters and that government remain the servant.
Yeah... no.
Your belief here is that "no one is abiding by the Constitution!" The reality is that in the vast majority of cases, the government
is fulfilling its Constitutional duty; it is merely doing things you personally dislike.
As a result, the government has become the master of the people, and the people have become indentured servants, and can no longer claim to be free in any context of the word. They have sacrificed their liberty for perceived safety and comfort, and have forfeited the rights their forefathers died for without so much as a single protest.
If you truly understood the Constitution and the history surrounding it, you would be sickened by the people we have become and our failure as a society to preserve our inheritance and to preserve it for our posterity.....
If you truly understood the Constitution and the history surrounding it, you would not try to justify your own authoritarian fantasy of everyone doing what
you want, because you are somehow the Perfect Interpreter of the Constitution.
By the way, I have to ask: How many years have you studied Constitutional Law? Do you have a law degree? Did you get it at Harvard or Yale? How many Supreme Court rulings have you studied? How much research have you done into the history of English Common Law, of the various state governments, of the Revolutionary War Period, of the Articles of Confederation? What are your
bona fides, such that you claim to have superior knowledge of these topics to all others?
