The Constitution

What it does, what it is

To bring out the noble and just in all of us. To enhance the purpose of fairness and equality for those fortunate enough to call this great nation of ours home.

I am no Constitutional scholar. Hell, I am not even a lawyer. But I think that I grasp the spirit of that great document just as well as anyone well versed in its intricacies and inferences. I place our Constitution among the great documents that are gifts to mankind on the same level as the Magna Carta or “Le droits de l’homme” (the rights of men).

The Constitution is a fluid and evolving document and it has to be to remain relevant. There is a certain degree of evolution in society and there are technological changes. There are also the elimination of archaic concepts and prejudices as well as religious and societal biases. This will put the Constitution in the very path of determining if these changes are warranted and if they are consistent with the spirit of the document and what it attempts to do.

There was even a time that in this great nation of ours it was deemed Constitutional for one person to be the owner of another. Not too far in our past, our people of the feminine gender were not even allowed to vote or own property and that was Constitutional.

Even after we as a nation condemned slavery it wasn’t yet for another hundred years before the black people were even considered human beings. The present brings many challenges, we are still struggling with the issue of States’ Rights and we have some segments of our population still relegated to second class status. Among these are the LGBT community and those who profess not to have faith or accept religion.

We have seen such things as the creation of an Air Force when obviously at the time the Constitution was written there wasn’t even a remote possibility that man would be capable of flying. There are other issues of importance that have had to be accommodated in terms of Constitutionality and that is the reason our Justice System exists and our Supreme Court is the ultimate word on Constitutionality. Lets hope that they are not swept by this wave of insane partisanship and do us right by our Constitution.