They're in thousand-point font FOR A REASON.

Consider those three words at the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America:  WE THE PEOPLE.

Why were those words written in such an enormous, overbearing manner?  As a reminder of who, exactly, has the ultimate authority in this country.  But, as the great and learned Thomas Sowell points out here, our God-given and Constitutionally-explicit authority is being undermined by the criminal scum who think they're in charge of the rest of us.

It is not only members of Congress or the administration who treat "we the people" and the Constitution as nuisances to do an end run around. Judges, including justices of the Supreme Court, have been doing this increasingly over the past hundred years.

During the Progressive era of the early 20th century, the denigration of the Constitution began, led by such luminaries as Princeton scholar and future President of the United States Woodrow Wilson, future Harvard Law School Dean Roscoe Pound, and future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.

As a professor at Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson wrote condescendingly of "the simple days of 1787" when the Constitution was written and how, in our presumably more complex times, "each generation of statesmen looks to the Supreme Court to supply the interpretation which will serve the needs of the day."

This kind of argument would be repeated for generations, with no more evidence that 1787 was any less complicated than later years than Woodrow Wilson presented -- which was none -- and with no more reasons why the need for "change" meant that unelected judges should be the ones making those changes, as if there were no elected representatives of the people.

Go read the rest of this.  Now.  And then consider how far we've fallen.

What are you doing about it?

(HT iOTW.)