Hello everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report with us today. We have

Circon Dr. Paul. Hey, how are you?

Circon very good. Circon is our broadcast engineer and we're doing this program today and we're

going to engage some of our listeners and we're looking forward to that and Circon how do we

start on this program? When am I going to get a question? Well, we're going to put you in the

hot seat today, Dr. Paul. We're doing another edition of Ask Ron Paul and we'll just get straight

to it to our first question here, which comes from Eric and he asks, how might the Constitution

have been written to make it harder to unwind by those wanting to corrupt or masculate it?

Dr. Paul, what's your take on this? Well, the Constitution is still heroic in the sense that

is probably the best document ever written to try to guide a country and a civilization,

but it still comes up short and they knew about this and yet the founders understood the

limitations of what they could put into a Constitution because even when it was finished,

they explained to the people who were inquiring, what did you give us after the convention?

And they said, they did not say, oh, we have this perfect democracy for you. Go out there and start

grounding up the majorities and things like that. Matter of fact, they definitely avoided the word

democracy. It's not in the Constitution. And their answer was, we have given you a republic,

and then they also had, if you can keep it. So it was known back then by the founders that

liberty and protecting of liberty and constitutions and these laws are very, very delicate and it

depends on something other than just how well they're written. And there's no doubt some of the things

in the Constitution could be better written and more demanding of the people to understand what's

going on. One of the things I would have liked to see in the Constitution was it being explicit

that states could secede if they wanted to. They came together voluntarily. They should have

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