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I presume you're directing this at all of the domestic enemies of the Constitution working for various levels of government, who treat the highest law of the land as an inconvenience that must be circumvented and eroded away.


To regard the Constitution as "the highest law of the land" is, at this point in the history of the United States, somewhere between naïve and just plain silly.

The actual highest law of the land is that made by Supreme Court fiat, when they rule on the cases which they choose to hear, and whose rulings no man may practicably gainsay. Below that there are many levels of law, arranged in the sort of untidy and inter-referential tangle which any software engineer might expect out of a system that's been being patched and extended for two centuries straight; if we take the increasingly vestigial federal/state/local distinction as our demarcation, Congress occupies much of the lower half of the upper third. And, of course, at every level, and just as at all other times and places throughout the entire broad span of human history, the basic rule is that what's legal is what you get away with.

Is this how the matter ought to be? Perhaps, and perhaps not; I've seen arguments both ways. But, either way, this is how the matter is.




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