{"id":373,"date":"2012-02-13T01:48:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T01:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychepolitics.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2012-02-13T01:48:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T01:48:59","slug":"is-the-constitution-a-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychepolitics.com\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Is The Constitution A Bible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how it sounds, when the Right talks about supporting it. They sanctify it.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s how it sounds, when the Left talks about ignoring it. They are the secularists.<br \/>\nOnce again, the extremes are being, well, extreme. The Constitution is, of course, not a bible. However, it is very, very important. This is because it presents a system of principles most people live by. It is a constant. To undermine it is to entertain chaos.<\/p>\n<p>One thing the Constitution provides for is change of itself. If you don&#8217;t like it, you can change it. However, you&#8217;d better have very compelling reasons for doing so, because you&#8217;ll need to convince lots of people it&#8217;s worth the change. Yes, it is hard to change it, but it has been changed. Yes it&#8217;s hard to change it, but it will be changed in the future.<\/p>\n<p>To ignore the Constitution, to devalue it, is a step toward tyranny. It is a giant step from the rule of law to the rule of, well, rulers. Not a good idea. Neither chaos nor totalitarianism is a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>But it is not a bible. Bibles are not changeable by man. There is no need for the religious (with a small &#8220;r&#8221;) Right to worship the Constitution, and there is no need for the secular Left to undermine it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how it sounds, when the Right talks about supporting it. They sanctify it. That&#8217;s how it sounds, when the Left talks about ignoring it. They are the secularists. Once again, the extremes are being, well, extreme. The Constitution is, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/psychepolitics.com\/?p=373\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychepolitics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychepolitics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychepolitics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychepolitics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychepolitics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psychepolitics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/psychepolitics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychepolitics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychepolitics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychepolitics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}