The United States Constitution is the greatest, most influential, legal document in existence.

Thursday was Constitution Day, the anniversary of the day (September 17, 1787) when the delegates at our constitutional convention approved and signed the U.S. Constitution. To celebrate the occasion at a college where I teach, booklets were distributed containing the text of the U.S. Constitution and facts about it. You can order copies of the booklet at the ConstitutionFacts.com website. (If, instead, you would like one free pocket copy of the U.S. Constitution, then visit the Heritage Foundation at AskHeritage.org.)

I opened the booklet to the foreword on page 1, and what I read angered me:

“And it is a living document. …the Supreme Court continually interprets the Constitution so as to reflect a rapidly changing world…”

I remind you that what they are doing is WRONG.

The problem is not necessarily the use of the term “Living Document”. The Constitution is able to change. It is designed to change as needed.  However, it is NOT designed to change at the whim of nine lawyers/judges. Nor is it designed to change easily.

The Constitution means exactly what it says, not what what you wish it meant. Article V states the proper procedure for amending the Constitution. It is the ONLY way to properly change the Constitution or what it means. You absolutely need three-fourths of all state legislatures to approve any and all changes. When necessary, we amend the document using the proper procedure.

If we allow anyone to impulsively modify or re-interpret it, then the document becomes meaningless. Then we become a nation ruled by men, instead of a nation ruled by law.

Any public official (executive, legislator, or judge) who does not follow the Constitution, the Law of the Land, as it is written is violating their oath to support, preserve, protect and/or defend the Constitution of the United States. This is treasonable.