Thank you for serving our country Sailor.

You might be interested in a few things that have happened to our original Constitution.

The 17th Amendment, passed in 1913, was the first assault on the document originally created with historic foresight by our Founders. It made the Senate practically the same as the House. In the original document, the Senate was to provide a check against the House against flash-in-the-pan legislation, such as Obamacare, passed in the dead of night. The pre 1913 Senate never would have passed Obamacare.

In 1937, FDR illegally threatened the SCOTUS with removal - explicitly against the separation of powers built into the Constitution. The people of the US at the time were so accustomed to Constitutional protection of their rights, that they could not actually conceive of what had happened. If they had been as savvy as Colonials, they would have impeached FDR and removed him from office immediately. In 1942, SCOTUS caved and abandoned the Commerce Clause in Wickard v Filburn, which allowed the government originally through the department of Agriculture, to unconditionally tell farmers what they could and could not grow. There was no longer any recourse, and no appeal. Constitutional protection of farmer's rights evaporated, and a vast unaccountable Federal Bureaucracy was born, now the FDA, that most Americans take for granted to this day - just like frogs being slowly boiled. Wickard v Filburn became known as "The stitch in time that saved nine." (Justices from being removed).

Equal rights only exist when no one gains special rights. So when Affirmative Action, Segregation, Busing... occurred in the 60s and 70s, Constitutional protection of the rights of the majority were directly eroded.

Then, by 1981, the LRRA passed by Congress, drove 276 insurance companies out of business. It was another violation of the intent of the defunct Commerce Clause. Insurance rates quadrupled, medical care began to degrade, and Democrats had the excuse that they themselves created to justify Obamacare.

Finally, the precedent set by Wickard v. Filburn, however illegally, was the basis for exceeding the Constitutional mandate of the Federal government to be subordinate to the States, in the "Affordable Care Act," aka Obamacare. Obamacare tripled the already quadrupled insurance rates, and completely destroyed Constitutional protection of our rights.

For those of us who take seriously our pledge to support and defend the Constitution, we have a huge task ahead of us to restore the original Constitution, and have a largely illiterate, ignorant and apathetic public fighting us, who generally have no understanding of why the Constitution is important.

The single thing that made our country great, is now essentially gone. Unless we find a way to restore the original Constitution, our greatness will fade away, as it is leached by socialism into the trash heap of history.