The Constitution - A Contract with Americans

Contract with Americans: the Constitution

The Constitution of the United States is a contract with the American people. The founders created a document, publicly promising certain rights to every American, and limiting the powers of the government, and they promised these things to convince the different states to ratify the Constitution and later to please the anti-federalists who opposed the Constitution. Today’s judges now tell us that this contract is a living, breathing document that changes with time. If I create a contract indicating that I will fix your car for $300, I cannot suddenly change the contract to read that I will fix your car for $800 and will charge you for storage fees. This would be a violation and legally, you would not be liable to me for anything but the $300. Thus, those justices who claim to be strict constructionists are telling you that they will not change the contract without an amendment, while the other justices are more than happy to add to, delete from and otherwise pervert the original intent of the document, so long as the result of their machinations results in a favorable result to them and their political allies. Creating rights that never existed in the Constitution is one way that judges have created judicial tyranny by fiat. We need to start supporting only those judges who believe that the Constitution must only be interpreted based on its original meaning. Any other interpretation negates the whole purpose of the Constitution and endangers the very rights that the Constitution guarantees.