Mrs. Schweers asks why people insist that the Constitution mean what it was actually written to mean -- as opposed to what those surfing the latest cultural and political waves want it to mean. “Why can’t the nation’s pre-eminent legal document be more malleable to the ever changing tastes and fancies of the people it governs?” she really inquires.

Her question assumes a “living” document must be not only changeable (which our Constitution is with 27 amendments), but ever-changing. It reflects a sad poverty of thinking in liberal sentiment in which our laws and the truths they are built on are as ephemeral as vapor…in which “So help me God” means – well, not much at all.

Our Constitution was written by men still regarded as among the wisest and most gifted this continent has produced. It reflects their thoughtful, carefully measured assessment not only of the new nation’s political convictions, but the character of its people.

Our Constitution forms the solid legal foundation for government, and captures essential distinctives of our American soul. (Gasp!) Today the world is different than 250 years ago, yet that soul remains the same. “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” and it is those truths of the God given soul, not the rumblings and seduction of cheap political expediency that underscores our Constitution.

Mrs. Schweers sneers derision at “those gun owners, people fond of the National Anthem.”

It is this very intolerance and disrespect it poses to our mutual long-term political stability, that the Constitution was created to circumvent. It is not, as she claims, a bias limited to Republicans, but is the bent of human nature. It is what necessitates the preservation of a Constitution whose truths have proven larger and more enduring than our culture’s political whims.