Interpretation can work but it should be slow.
The reason I argue so strongly for a return to the original process is because it does work. It took it through the civil war and out the other side enabling us to expand to a continental nation. It facilitated us growing into a nation of many faiths, cultures, and races.
when confronted with our failings it forced us to confront them and live up to our calling as a nation of individuals all of significant worth and value.
This is the very thing that made us what we are or were. It’s that surety to know that we all are equal before the law and each other.
That liberty does not mean license.
That everyone who immigrates here has an equal shot at finding the American dream, and an equal shot at failing.
I knew a Vietnamese immigrant who came here after the south fell. He was a officer in the ARVN. He got his family out before Saigon fell. Had to escape through Cambodia and the killing fields. I trained him to take over my job as I was moving on. The man had a fantastic attitude and was so thankful to get himself and family out of Vietnam. It was horrible what he saw and lived through. Told me about walking past the university in Phnom Penh. The Khmer Rouge had tied up all the educators for the university in the class rooms and hallways and left them there to die of thirst and starvation. All the windows were left open and you could hear them screaming out for help as they lost their minds to thirst. It was so horrible and brutal. Yet he was so full of hope and purpose for himself and family. I saw him again 15 years later still doing the job I trained him to do. His family had opened several Vietnamese restaurants in Tulsa Oklahoma of all places and were growing and still looking towards the future.
In many ways he was more of an American than me.
That’s why people came to America, we had a government and constitution that respects everyone as equal. With laws that respect everyone the same. That enable everyone to find their own dream and live their own life.
That willing submit their loyalty to this nation as a people of mixed heritages, experiences or wealth.
When we find that again, if we find it again, we will again be what we’re supposed to be.