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Graylight · 51-55, F
Nothing, if it's taken for what it is: an exemplary template for new governments, open to interpretation and nearly perpetual updating.
The Constitution, among other things and despite attempts to make it untrue, is completely inclusionary. No amendments exist to exclude people or groups. But even as they were writing it, the founding fathers (as verified through numerous other texts) expected out of common sense that the documented would be reinterpreted, added to and refined as time demanded. To treat it like an immutable word from on high is contrary and dangerous. The US Constitution is a guide, a formula. It is not sacred text from God.
The Constitution, among other things and despite attempts to make it untrue, is completely inclusionary. No amendments exist to exclude people or groups. But even as they were writing it, the founding fathers (as verified through numerous other texts) expected out of common sense that the documented would be reinterpreted, added to and refined as time demanded. To treat it like an immutable word from on high is contrary and dangerous. The US Constitution is a guide, a formula. It is not sacred text from God.