Crumbling Constitution

By John Stossel

Published October 14, 2014 5:21pm ET

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Crumbling Constitution — Some Americans, right and left, give up on the Constitution whenever it gets in the way of policies they like. Some on the right defend anti-obscenity laws or want more mingling of church and state, while those on the left want endless economic regulation. (iStock)

Does the Constitution still matter?

When it was written, Ben Franklin said the Founders gave us a republic, “if you can keep it.” Few people thought the republic would last another 227 years, but it has. The Constitution’s limits on government power helped create the most free and prosperous country on earth.

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