I used to be amazed that we can't just take the Constitution for granted in America today. I was shocked to find out that many people seem to view the Constitution as a recipe for making thier own favorite Society-cake. They'd like to add and subtract ingredients, as they wish, if they can get enough folks to go along with them. Fewer gays. No right to privacy. Lots of power for certain religious views. Some people want to make the Society-cake an English speaking cake. There are a powerful few who want to make the cake a corporate cake, or a military/industrial cake, an imperial cake. A lot of folks want the cake to be a religious cake.
I think such cake makers know that they can't get what they want through amendments, so they try to stuff the court system with folks sharing their group-think. They even seem to have the court system pretty well in hand, at this point.
So now I understand that the Constitution has to be fought for, and lost, or won, each and every generation.
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