If I ever go off on how the dumbing down of education is used to manipulate politics, here is an excellent example.
I would guestimate that the average American educated today has less than a third of the grasp of the language compared to someone educated in the fifties. I was educated in the sixties just as everything was being dismantled and reassembled into something that to the outside eye appeared to be educational, without actually being informative. The supposedly lofty goal was to teach us to understand what we were doing rather than teaching us to arrive at the correct answer. Many of us, assumed that meant teaching how to think rather than how to remember. If that was ever the real goal, judging by the crowd I've met it failed miserably.
Knowledge of grammar seems to have been abandoned completely. I never meet anyone under 30 that knows what a gerund is, or can use a semicolon correctly two out of three times. Which brings me round to my point: the Second Amendment:
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
To someone educated before 1969, this clearly says "As the government will always have the need for guns, the people's right of gun ownership should never be restricted." and a little knowledge of history adds "without the publics ability to defend itself there is nothing to keep the Government in check."But to those educated later it seems to read, "as the Government needs guns to protect itself it should always have the right to have them in a well regulated army."
And as simple as that, thousands of laws, infringing on the rights of the people to keep and bear arms, are enacted and enforced by the courts without a Constitutional Amendment.
By the way, for those who were taught (or allowed to assume) that the preamble* to the Constitution was the whole document, you might find this link enlightening: The Constitution and Amendments.
*Preamble means "an introductory statement", it's the lead in to the Constitution not the Constitution itself.