Exactly my point. When we begin to pick apart the document and remove the "archaic ideals" on which the "timeless" and "revolutionary" were founded; we loose reference. They cease to have meaning and a base to be judged upon.

 

I can't disagree with you, but I also have to imagine that the architects had no possible way of imagining what today would require with regards to laws. I'm not diminishing the fact that while the Consititution is eerily as near perfection as mankind has ever seen, it was designed to be scrutinized daily in order to maintain it's legitimacy.

I'm awed by the Constitution. As a cynical American, I feel like the probability that the hand of some other-wordly power (DAMN! I almost said God) guided the founding fathers more than I believe in the probability that the Bible was.

However, I seriously doubt that if any of them were still alive today that they'd still see a need for for the 2nd Amendment, or at least would have preferred it worded differently. That's my opinion, of course. The 3rd Amendment, while it's something that probably should be codified somewhere, seems inappropriate today as I have yet to really come across any instance in my military career where comandeering some poor American's house was even a distant course of action.

BTW, while I was in Afghanistan, I bought a buttload of these booklets for my soldiers and myself.
http://www.constitutionfacts.com/con...onst_intro.htm