No constitution can be self-enforcing. Government officials must respect their oaths to uphold the Constitution; and we the people must be vigilant in seeing that they do. When governors, mayors, and members of Congress take the oath of office prior to assuming the responsibilities, authority, and powers of these executive and legislative offices, it includes the statement to uphold the Constitution of the United States. If these executives and legislators fail to do so, it is the requirement of the president, the U.S. Executive Office, to ensure that the Constitution is being upheld (Article II, Section 1).
The preamble to the Constitution states, “We the people ... in order to … insure domestic Tranquility ... promote the general Welfare ...” In order to ensure and enforce these principles and articles, we have laws. When laws are being broken without consequence, or not enforced, we are lawless and anarchy reigns. What we are seeing in major U.S. cities is our Constitution being violated and defiled.
