text: Curious that the authors cite and defend a constitution written centuries ago as long as it supports their political view point. The same constitution gives rights to bear arms to ordinary citizens causing thousands of firearm fatalities every year. It also grants its head of state the right to declare and wage foreign wars and suspend civil rights in the interest of national security.  Should we conclude that the US constitution is a failed instrument and that its Citizen rights provisos should also be subjected to modern scrutiny ?