“Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals—that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government—that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizens’ protection against the government.” — Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand’s description of the U.S. Constitution is not consistent with the words of the document itself.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
You might also want to check out the 16th Amendment (ratified in 1913).
It is especially silly to treat the U.S. Constitution like some kind of divine wisdom when part of its innovation was its lack of religious language.
