Let Freedom Ring 2.0

Our founding fathers "cannot save us. 
We must save ourselves"

- Terry M. Moe and William G. Howell,  

authors of  Relic: How Our Constitution 

Undermines Effective Government – 

And Why We Need a More Powerful

Presidency.

Much is said about America being in a “constitutional crisis” today, And those who say so are correct. However, it’s becoming similarly understood that America has been heading in this direction for decades now. The US Constitution is- and long has been- obsolete.

This, in part is well articulated in this link to the following book excerpt by Moe and Howell:

https://www.hoover.org/research/our-outdated-constitution

My comments below were inspired, of course by the authors’ assertions. in the book excerpt. But they are also tempered by the comments made by some who posted their remarks afterward. I thought this appropriate, given that America is nothing if not a hotbed of discourse on all subjects government and politics.

I agree with the author's main point that the US Constitution is obsolete, and that it needs updating or, preferably rewritten into a contemporary document that reflects America as it is today.

Not to get too far ahead of myself, I feel it important to emphasize the implication that a rewritten Constitution today may well need to again be rewritten in the future to reflect the America that will be then, and so on. This in mind, our efforts today will likely set a tone for the United States of tomorrow.

Along with the Constitution, governance as it currently exists will be changed. The fact that the respondents to this book excerpt is a very good thing, for we as Americans could not enter into such a discussion without approaching it from the heart.

The America of the future is counting on us to set the example in this regard, in the same way our forefathers set the example for us today. The heated discussion that is sure to ensue in contemplating a new or revised Constitution is as uniquely as
American as is our democracy itself.

Such participation is to be welcomed until the day a consensus among all Americans is reached. It’s what the “of the people and by the people“ concept our forefathers envisioned for the America of the late 1700s, and this treasured idea holds just as true today.

This, of course is easier said than done. But there’s no more American quality than that of diligence in attaining a goal that seems unattainable in its scope. Americans who lament our dire political condition today are among the best catalysts for a change of this magnitude. Hopefully they will heed the call and step up and act, as their Constitutional right encourages them to do.

In this sense, let us always remember that our successes in terms of self-governance sets the example for governments worldwide. Thus it isn’t only for our beloved America that we work, but for the history of all mankind.

In this regard America‘s Constitutional crisis can therefore become our Constitutional solution.