Why Do Conservatives Treat the Constitution As if It Were Holy?

The Founders certainly didn't.

As patriotic conservatives, we take two premises as an article of faith:

1. That our Founding Fathers had the correct principles, and

2. That the system they bequeathed to us properly actuates those principles.

This then forms the kernel of an argument, the natural conclusion of which is that any political problems we have must be solely the result of corruptio…