Christmas should be fun this year

Artwork by David Behrens

My cousin posted the following status update on Facebook the day after the election:

"[My cousin] is sad for the founding fathers of the United States. A Major travesty has been committed and the ideals of this nation will be but a memory. DAMN YOU DEMOCRATS"

Can someone perhaps enlighten me on what ideals, exactly, will be "but" memories? Something like this?

No free man shall be arrested, or imprisoned, or deprived of his property, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor shall we go against him or send against him, unless by legal judgement of his peers, or by the law of the land

What's that? Oh, that's out already?

Oh.