Today is Constitution Day, the 216th anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution.

In 2003, the Constitution is under attack from all sides, from the judicial activists of the Left who have installed themselves as the philosopher kings of the country, to the ultra-right anti-federalists who resent having lost the national debate long before the Constitution was ever ratified and who hate the system of government it formed. Those in the latter group are in no sense "conservatives," since they never had anything to conserve. Though they hypocritically profess reverence for the Constitution, they actually hate it and the nation it formed with a white-hot passion.

For the rest of us, the freedoms and security guaranteed by the Constitution are to be cherished and defended. I'm pleased to see that something of a consensus is forming among conservatives that the time is ripe for a congressional remedy to the runaway judiciary. Alan Keyes has been promoting action in this area, and James Dobson advocated the same thing on MSNBC last night.

To celebrate the birthday of the Constitution, call your representative and tell him you want the Congress to do its constitutional duty in placing limits on the runaway authority of the federal judiciary. Congress has the authority to reign in the judicial monarchy, and if the drumbeat gets loud enough, they will do it.