Frank T wrote:
The Constitution is in serious need of a rewrite.
Why on earth, in 2022 should we be worried about what a bunch of men in the 18th century, thought was appropriate?
Remember, these were the guys who thought women shouldn't v**e, only White Male landowners had the right to v**e and that owning another human being was just fine.
I really envy countries like Canada, and Great Britain. and a hundred others that govern for the 21st Century and the results are obvious. They have things like free medical care, free college, high-speed rail, better roads and six weeks paid vacation, while we work all our lives just to stay afloat.
I for one would welcome a re-write, if it weren't for the lunatics in the Republican Party who long to bring us back to the 1789
The Constitution is in serious need of a rewrite. ... (
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Unless, of course, you realize the utter futility of getting radical anti-American beliefs codified by a majority of citizens. I would bet there are some amendments to the present Constitution that you might dearly love to get changed to suit your personal views.
Here is a thing: the process DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY !
No need for a “rewrite”, just agitate and go through the legal amendment process, then get the proper number of states to ratify the amendment, and PRESTO-CHANGEO the Constitution may be changed!
And please remember, when a different viewpoint was recognized by majorities, the Constitution WAS changed! Women got the v**e, s***es were freed, all naturalized and American-borns were allowed to v**e, &c..
All through a Constitutionally approved process that you denigrate so glibly.
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I would bet you would really like to see certain amendments “revisited” in light of current socialist-leaning views. That is fine, but there are tradesies involved here: want to do away with the Second Amendment? Ok.
Only if we do away with the First Amendment!
How about we do away with some of the others, too, and just (for example) quarter a platoon of Army Rangers in YOUR HOUSE? Oh yes, there a LOTS of potential “rewrites” that some persons would like to see. There are a LOT of changes that could be made!
“But wait, only the things I want changed should be rewritten” I hear you say?
Riiight, and what give YOU the right to decide?
It is not one of the Constitutionally-enumerated rights that you evidently detest as written by those “hoary old white s***e-owners” in the late 1700’s. Those “old boys” certainly were more educated concerning the laws and social responsibilities of their time than you appear to be of the present.
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If you really envy the other countries, as cited, look to England, whose Common Law dates back to the 1200’s. But you forgot (conveniently) that England DOES NOT HAVE A CONSTITUTION ! (Whoops! Caught-you on that one!).
Or Canada, whose Constitution dates back to, what? 1982? And previously was little more than a vassal-state supplying lumber, grain, and troops to England’s Empire. Ruled without a Constitution!
If you really appreciate the styles of government in all those other countries, why don’t you just go to one of them and live?
Leave the rest of us alone!Or maybe you think we do not need a Constitution AT ALL?
In which case you are just another flippin’ anarchist.