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“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root”

Constitutions don't enforce themselves. That means if the Constitution isn't enforced, it's not the Constitution's fault.

James Madison called constitutions "parchment barriers." They are like paper doors - pretty useless for stopping anything -- unless they are enforced.

A university in jersey. my question is if the constitution is the rules for the government and government administers and enforces it's own rules how do we prevent them from breaking their own rules? >> that's a very good question. it is won the founding fathers thought a lot about. in creating a government to protect people you have to create one that will protect them themselves. the congress will do all of these terrible things. have we no virtue among us? is we have none we are in a retched condition. no system of parchment barriers would let them. the constitution's promise have the meani...