How To Celebrate The Constitution
I suggest you start by considering how wildly different -- and utterly horrible -- your life would be without it.

There's an editiorial in the LA Times on the little-known "Constitution Day," September 17, "Constitution Day: Let's all celebrate."

Yes, celebrate the Constitution -- but also deplore how Americans have become so complacent about our rights. I think we have become so physically comfortable that we just can't be bothered to care about our civil liberties, to notice how they are rapidly being eroded in this country, to make a peep when they are violated as we travel by plane.

My comment at the LAT site on the piece:

Celebrate (and defend) the Constitution by defending it -- by not politely allowing your Fourth Amendment rights to be violated when you go through the airport, and by taking steps to protest this.

You celebrate the Constitution by using your free speech and supporting organizations that support it, like theFIRE.org, which defends free speech violations on campuses (free of charge for those violated, no matter their politics or beliefs), and Institute for Justice (IJ.org), which defends the civil liberties of people who can't afford a defense in off-campus situations.

And when you see someone's civil liberties being violated, speak up on their behalf. Videotape what's happening to them, write about it, make it heard.

We have become exceptionally complacent in this country about our rights -- and as Friedrich Hayek cautioned, "It is seldom that any Liberty is lost all at once."