I wasn't clear. My argument isn't that there shouldn't be a Constitution. My argument is that a Constitution can be a restraint on the power of the state. The real restraint is the people. Obviously the Constitution is great in that we can look back at it and measure against it. The problem is that the way conservatives frame the Constitution as a bulwark against tyranny. No piece of paper can do what they claim it was its intended purpose. If that was its intended purpose it failed within a few years of being penned.

If your view is that the US would be worse off if there wasn't a Constitution we would be in agreement. I just think we ask too much of a piece of paper. That the conservative movement is a joke. Their view has put people into a passive state of expecting things to be restrained by paper. Its really hard to read American history and still believe the Constitution has not failed to restrain the growth and expansion in power of the federal government. Could it be worse. For sure. We could be like the USSR or Nazi Germany or North Korea. It can get much worse. The people are the true restraint on tyranny. And not in the ballot box, but in their everyday actions and values. Politics is downstream of culture and there's an entire system that seeks to distort this reality.