Constitutional government...

The organizer of our first anti-war demonstration made the comment that he still "believed in our constitutional government" and hoped that the rest of those present did also.

I can't agree with that sentiment - our constitution is broken and we need to fix it.

The 800 lb. gorilla in every citizen's living room is that we do not have a democracy, we don't have a representative government, and until we the people acknowledge that and take the necessary steps to fix it - history will repeat itself.

Let's go back to the beginning, words from the Declaration of Independence:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,..."

I no longer give my consent to this government.

We need constitutional change favoring a democracy - a government of the people by the people and for the people.

We need a constitution that:

• Allows majority rule and protects us from a tyrannical majority.
• Allows us to be capitalists and protects us from capitalists.
• Allows us to be socialists and protects us from socialists.
• Allows us to be communists and protects us from communists.
• Allows us to be right-wing republicans and protects us from right-wing republicans.
• Allows us to be left handed and protects us from left handers.
• Allows us to be progressives and protects us from progressives.
• Allows us to be prejudiced and protects us from the prejudiced.
• Allows us to be atheists and protects us from atheists.
• Allows us to be religious and protects us from the religious.
• Provides every citizen equal justice, not the justice one can purchase.
• Provides every citizen equal access, not the access one can purchase.
• Provides every citizen equal protection, not the protection one can purchase.