The Constitution should not be revered, it should be honored, as a contract is honored, because that is what it is. It is, or was, a contract, a DEAL, between people who had differing understandings of what the world was and how to get along best in it.
The statists have reneged on the deal and we need to oppose them just as one would oppose anyone else who has cheated on a contract. And we need to call them what they are – cheats.
The pretense that the Constitution, or anything else, will make everyone happy is part of what screws the deal. Once you put forward that lie, it is too easy for people to complain that they are not happy, that the Constitution is not providing what they want.
Most believers in small government know that government cannot provide what people want, only the security to pursue it for themselves within the rules of the contract. We need to be more vocal in stating and standing up for that.
