Is our constitution working???

I have to agree with you that the Constitution isn't working very well right now. but I don't think that "overhauling" it is the right idea.... It was pretty well designed by moral people who rightly feared an unrestricted government. Changing one word "of" in the Preamble phrase "right to the pursuit of happiness" to "to" would give the Government the power to define "happiness", the power and ultimately the duty to provide "happiness" and the power to imprison anyone who is not content with this "happiness"... What would be more beneficial would be having someone begion challenging all the "un-Constitutional" "powers" approriated by the "Federal Government" During the "War between the States".... Prior to the "Civil War" the national government probably had less than 100,000 employees. During the war it grew to over a million in mostly un-Constitutional activities, thought necessary for functioning during the crisis. The "Federal Government" has never abolished any of those basically un-Constitutional "agencies"....

I had to read through this thread a few times to make sure I was seeing correctly. As I feared, I read correctly. Then I read again to see if it was written as a joke. Again, nope, not a joke. The only problem with the constitution is the lack of spine in many state governments in enforcing it and the federal government ignoring it. The constitution was not designed to protect rights, but to define them and lay out the restrictions to our government. It is the job of the people to enforce the contract it created. A contract that created the federal government as a subserviant agent of the states and people.