The Consitution now comes with a disclaimer

  Amazon is selling a version of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence that comes with a disclaimer before the actual text of the historical documents. I cannot copy and paste the disclaimer; if you want to read it for yourself, you will have to click on the link that I provided and then click on the “click to look inside” link that is provided there. The disclaimer is there.

  Basically, the disclaimer states that the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence do not reflect the same values that they would if they were written today. I guess freedom and the right to self-government are foreign ideas to these people, and are no longer relevent.  The disclaimer then urges the buyer to discuss with their children how views on race and gender have changed since these documents were written before even allowing them to read the documents.

  There is no doubt that times have changed, and there is no doubt that many of the founders had their faults– especially when it came to slavery– but this just seems to me to be a perfect example of how far some on the left are willing to go in order to discredit many of the documents that this country was founded on. They do not see the Constitution and the Declaration as inspiring; they find them antiquated and in many cases flawed and outdated documents.

  They have this aversion to the Constitution, and they try to push their agenda forward by abusing the Constitution using the “general welfare” clause, and the “commerce clause” to see things in the Constitution that are not there. They believe that the Constitution is a living document that must change with the times while ignoring the fact that the Constitution provides us with a way to change the Constitution through the amendment process.

  See, the amendment process takes too long, and the outcome is not guaranteed, so they use the courts to change the Constitution. Putting a disclaimer on the Constitution only helps them to show what they consider to be the faults of the document and helps them to indoctrinate our children into the liberal mindset  that because the founders were mere men and had faults that these documents should be taken with a grain of salt.

  The Constitution has been under attack for years, and now we are seeing the effort to discredit it reaching new levels with the news that parents are being urged to tell their children that the Constitution doesn’t mean today what it meant yesterday. The Constitution means exactly what it says, and in the places where it was wrong, it was amended. If these people think that it is still flawed, they need to use the amendment process to fix it, not make the effort to delegitimize it.