What values does the US Constitution have?

Question

What values does the US Constitution have?

Answer 1

Sentimental and symbolic, just like the Magna Carta etc.

Answer 2

One can draw many things from the Constitution, including the sentiments and values of the Founding Fathers.  However, it is first and foremost, a legal instrument that forms our frame of government.  It is like a card game where all the players agree to the rules before they start playing.

Its transcendence comes in large part from the manner of its adoption, and the fact that all officers of the United States, and the states, take an oath to uphold it.  Naturally this doesn't mean that the president sleeps in the national archives with a pistol.

The Constitution, despite primary purpose as a frame of government, is viewed as the physical embodiment of the Republic.  The protection of not only the government and the country is sworn too, but also the protection of liberties, and values, and the so-called American Way of Life.  

Answer 3

the constitution is a piece of paper.  It has no values, and no conscience.  Those who drafted it had values and those values found their way into the thoughts and words of the drafters, but that is not what you asked.

Answer 4

Not sure anymore:

BILL S-1959

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wJsovPRT...

http://www.ccrjustice.org/learn-more/faq...

http://www.democracynow.org/2007/11/20/h...

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-viol...

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd...