January 6 and the Challenge of Trusting the Constitution
One year later, we should rededicate ourselves to our nation’s highest principles.
by Shmuel Klatzkin
January 8, 2022, 11:09 PM
As I write, on January 6, 2022, I’m reminded that sometimes government doesn’t go right.
Too often, it has been because of oppression — governments only caring about some of the people and riding roughshod over the rest. They paper over the tyranny with the appearance of legality, deepening the oppression by requiring mental and spiritual enslavement to the this caricature as if it were legitimate.
But even well-conceived nations can err. Constitutionalists know that even the best systems of law will miscarry. Juries get it wrong, sometimes wrongly convicting innocent people, sometimes failing to convict real criminals. Rules of evidence, necessary to preserve our freedom, can and do sometimes make it impossible to convict criminals. Basic rights, such as the Fifth Amendment right not to be put in double jeopardy, will sometimes allow a criminal a free pass for the rest of his life. A good system of laws and a great constitution does not translate necessarily into continuous and perfect justice in the society.
We are devoted to the Constitution above all.
This is true not only when the law system is human and conventional, but even when the laws are divine. In the end, it is fallible human beings who execute and adjudicate even divine law, making errors inevitable.
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