There is something infantile in the belief of the constitution-worshippers that the complex political arguments of today can be settled by simple fidelity to a document written in the 18th century. Michael Klarman of the Harvard Law School has a label for this urge to seek revealed truth in the sacred texts. He calls it “constitutional idolatry”.
Our Lexington columnist is perplexed by the tea-party movement’s fidelity to the American constitution 

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    This term is spot-on, and I will be using it henceforth.
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