"In the same conversation with my liberal friend that I referred to at the beginning of this chapter, he remarked on how 'right-wing' my views were. 'I agree with James Madison,' I said. 'Is that 'right-wing'?'

'I suppose if Madison were alive today and held the same views he did then,' he replied, 'we'd call him right-wing.;'

I suppose 'we' would"

Joe Sobran
Pensees - (For the full effect, listen here)

Roger Pilon on the newfound respect for our Constitution:

"Thus the first question the new Congress should ask of any proposed law is: Does the Constitution authorize us to pursue this end? If not, that ends the matter. If yes, the second question is: Are the means we employ 'necessary and proper,' as constrained by the principles of federalism and the rights retained by the people that are implied by a government of enumerated powers? In essence, the Constitution is no more complicated than that. It was written to be understood by ordinary citizens."

Read on at The Wall Street Journal.

“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”

George Orwell

Finally, my friend David comments:  "Lately I’ve been telling people I’m a constitutionalist. That always earns me a blank stare. If they ask what a constitutionalist is, I say it’s someone who believes that the people who swear to uphold the Constitution should at least read it, and then do their best not to violate it. I add that the Constitution means what it says—not whatever five Supreme Court justices claim it means from one day to the next. Otherwise, there’d have been no point in putting it in writing."