it's a tool to preserve democratic freedoms for all people; not a sacred text to enforce the demands of a self-absorbed few

DEMOCRACY: government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.

REPUBLIC: a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.

CONSTITUTION: the system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, or the like, is governed.

The constitution is a tool. A very good tool but there is nothing about the document which makes it the be all and end all. Democracy and freedom for the citizens is the end game.

Rebublic:a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.

Article IV US Constitution: Section 4.

The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a "republican form of government", and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence

Your turn. Now, show me the word Democracy in the Constituition.

I figured that is the main point of the meme, democracy isn't really a part of the constitution.

Then why should Conservatives focus on it?

I don't seem to be drawing the same conclusions about this meme as you. I could easily ask you why conservatives should focus on immutable governance?

He is showing what he purports to be a Conservative holding up the Constitution and declares that "none of them seem to mention democracy". I merely pointed out that the word Democracy is not in the Constitution so if Conservatives are always quoting the Constitution, why would they say the word Democracy. Thee end.

ok, I read it as pointing out how conservatives are focused on personal rights, rather than general democracy of opinion.

The word 'guns' isn't in the constitution either but are implied by 'well-armed' and 'militia'. the founders started with the idea of creating a democracy, the constitution was created to execute that democratic form of government. That the actual word 'democracy' isn't in the constitution itself is mere textual criticism. The constitution is a base, not a ceiling; It allows for greater freedoms to be created and does not constrain people's rights merely to what's exactly in the document. The government can allow more freedoms and rights, they just can't take away the basic ones. The constitution indicates a republican form of government, thus the people are represented by their duly constituated government, which means the government is not the enemy but the tool of the people (though god knows they f**k things up often enough, but that's why we have voting, right?).

Conservatives are focused on personal rights, but on their own rights, often to the detriment of the rights and freedoms of others. That's Cliven Bundy holding up the constitution. His sons led the takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. They were acting on their own selfish desires and subjective interpretations of the constitution with no concern for democratic processes or the demos ('people'). One person or one minority group does not determine what the constitution means or how it's applied. I didn't mean, in my original meme, that the word 'democracy' was in the constitution, I meant that conservatives tend to ignore everyone else in pursuit of their wants and misinterpret laws and founding documents to do so.

Let's not ignore the Bundy's are Mormon extremists. Any extremist group will have selfish and wild interpretations of any text, including the constitution. They don't see the word democracy in it and that is very convenient for their agenda.

Conservatives are selfish. I don't say that to be partisan, but their interpretations of American law and constitutional reflections on it tend to be considered in the immediate area of said interpreter. It's a refined mind that can see beyond their perceptive environs. A true liberal will see the community and not get overly absorbed in the communal concerns and see the individual in the mass.The United States of America didn't get created so that a minority number of privileged citizens can experience freedom, but that the overall hoi-polloi may receive the greatest amount of considered rights.