I guess the right-wingers don't actually read the Constitution any more than they read the Bible they profess to worship. The original Constitution:

- Says blacks are worth three-fifths of whites
- Says the importation of slaves is allowed at least for the next 20 years
- Has not one word about individual rights: no freedom of speech or religion, no right to bear arms
- Does not require any state to respect individual rights
- Has a presidential election system more suited for the horse-and-carriage era. If we still had the same system, Obama would be president and John McCain (as the #2 vote-getter) would be vice-president.

And those are just the major problems. You'd have to take a whole series of classes in Constitutional law to parse out all of them.

Yes, most of the problems with the Constitution have been fixed with various amendments or Supreme Court decisions, but if you're starting fresh, why not fold those fixes into the Constitution itself rather than recreate the same problems?

And it's not as if the other Constitutions are entirely alien documents. They were clearly inspired by the US Constitution. The first words of the Constitution of South Africa? "We the people." Wonder where they got that from.