Since when does the Constitution prevent language about abstractions?
Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness?
And does anyone really think the founders contemplated a world where you
could do whatever you want, regardless of the consequences? That the
nation would not be a community? That a government and laws would not be
necessary to our self-government?
If they did, why is the Constitution, for the most part, a set-up
document, laying out how laws and government would work?
If so, I must be wrong -- I thought we had a government system that tried
to balance competing needs.