We have a contingent in our community who call for some form of governance other than the Constitution after the Ruckus. In fact, there are several different groups who call for a rejection of the Constitution based on several reasons. For this post, I am addressing only those people who use this excuse for abandoning the Constitution as the rally point because, in their words, "The Constitution has demonstrated it is a failure to restrain bad people, and this has led to our current troubles..."
You see the list of religious texts in the image above. Except for Islam (which I refuse to consider to be a religion - it is a political tool, not a religion) each of those books has very similar overall moral tenets. A good Buddhist will see an Evil act much the same as would the Catholic and the Jew.
Malum in se is a Latin term that means, essentially, an act that is wrong or evil in itself. A malum in se act is one that sane, normal people will agree is evil or wrong, regardless of the religion they may follow. Pedophilia is malum in se. Murder is malum in se. (Please note I distinguish murder from killing - killing is not, by definition, immoral or Evil.) Rape is malum in se. Slavery is malum in se. Kicking a puppy is malum in se (and will earn you the beating of your life if I see it or find you afterward.)
Those religious books work for only one reason - the people who subscribe to each faith respect the words in the books.
If one chooses to ignore the tenets of Judaism or Catholicism, the words are incapable of forcing the individual to change their behavior. Holy Men are not discarding their books just because some people refuse to abide the tenets included within.
I think you have probably already connected the dots I have laid out.
The Constitution is exactly the same. The Constitution cannot compel any man to respect the tenets included any more than the bible can make a man follow its tenets.
I hold that if We the People do our duty to compel our politicians and bureaucrats to adhere to the limitations imposed by the Constitution, to respect the Rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights, all in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution/BoR/DoI will prove to be the most effective documents ever created by man for the just governance of a people who respect Liberty.
Just as the Priest works hard to keep his flock in a state of respect for the tenets of his religion, we Americans are equally responsible for enforcing respect for the Constitution, BoR, DoI.
If people respect their moral tenets, and they respect the Constitution, no worries.
If they disrespect the religious tenets or the principles of the Constitution/BoR/DoI, neither set of words on paper will correct the bad behavior.
Keeping our fellow men in line is our responsibility. No piece of paper can do it, and I don't care how you write it. If you add an Amendment to the US Constitution that bad politicians shall be executed, yet we do not execute them, we fail to enforce the terms and principles of the documents, and the documents, the principles are ignored. We have impeachment, and we do not use it. We have the voting box, and far too few use it (and far too many stupid people DO use it.) We have 2A as a final recourse - why must we procrastinate to the point that a 2A remedy becomes the only option left? Human Nature, perhaps. No matter.
Whether the Bible or the Bill of Rights, if we respect the words and values, all is well. And if we ignore the words, then We the People fail the documents.
It is time to be preparing, folks - because the day nears when we will have no choice but to demand people respect our Rights in the minority. And if we have to do that by making them the minority, well, that's on them...
But if you can't force people to adhere to the Bible, what makes you think you can force people to respect the USC/BoR/DoI?
The Constitution will work when we force compliance. Until then, until we force compliance, no document is worth the paper it is written upon.
And until someone shows me a document that is superior to the Constitution, that will remain my rally point. I do not think the mental prowess exists on all of Earth to write a better set of documents than the USC/BoR/DoI.
What we need to become is guide to our flock.
Kerodin
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