Read the Constitution. It is actually pretty short and very important. The President, Vice President, Representatives, Senators, military personnel and police officers all swear to uphold and protect the constitution. Unfortunately most of the laws being made today violate the Constitution.
If everyone reads it and knows it, we keep our freedom. Congress won't be able to slip any law past a population that is aware of the rights that the Constitution guarantees.
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The very 1st sentence and already we realize something has gone haywire in our culture. Have we provided our children a more perfect union? Where is the justice? And most important where is our domestic tranquility?
Can the Constitution be read without the Bill of Rights? Is amending the constitution a good thing? But Article V of the Constitution says Congress and the States may do so. Freedom of religion is Amendment I and The right to bears arms is Amendment II.
Is the Constitution worthless in a society that can not define certain moral codes? Is it a document for the privileged class of America? Is the Constitution the opium of the people?
I think by "more perfect union" they meant better than what they were getting from the British. A system where the states have most of the power and the Federal gov't has limited power. That is pretty reversed now-a-days.
I would say we have a decent balance of Domestic Tranquility.
The Constitution CAN be read without the Bill of Rights, but I don't recommend it. Read the other amendments too. Declaration of Independence would be good too. If you really want to go crazy you can read the Federalist Papers, the Anti-Federalist papers. I believe you can read John Adams diary when the Constitution was being written. Those things can give you some additional insight into what the Founding Fathers were thinking.
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