It is bad enough that liberals in Congress, judicial activists on the Supreme Court and our president all too often do not uphold the principles laid down by the United States Constitution.
Now, incredibly, a publishing company has placed “warning labels” on its reprints of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and other documents that brought the United States into being and made it the greatest nation in the history of the world.
Wilder Publications advises readers of the documents that “This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today.”
As if that were not absurd enough, it goes further: “Parents might wish to discuss with their children how views on race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and interpersonal relations have changed since this book was written before allowing them to read this classic work.”
The problem America faces is not that our vital founding documents fail to reflect sound values. The trouble is that we do not uphold the clear meaning of those documents.
We are in a time of crippling illiteracy about the Constitution — and especially about its limits on the power of the federal government.
The big problem is that adults and children do not read and understand the Constitution at all. We certainly don’t need a current publisher “warning” schoolchildren’s parents about its supposedly defective values. The only warning that ought to be attached to our founding documents is that Washington no longer pays attention to them.