Title couldn’t say it all.
“Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment...But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.”
- Thomas Jefferson
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last commentYeah, and they put an amendment process in the constitution for that very reason. A process that is DIFFICULT by design.
Your point?
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@prevert;
My point is that we the people need to desacralize the Constitution; to expose popular myths about it and eventually create something better.
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And somehow posting on a strip club website is the start of that movement?
Go run for Congress
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STFU @ CJ what we care about is tiddies and thongs take your anti american self hating fantasizing about dead icons outta here
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So post your ideas about what might be better. You’re bitching and whining without offering anything better.
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Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana
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In the late 70's he authored an amendment to abolish the Electoral College and go by the Popular Vote.
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As it remains today, a vote cast in Wyoming carries over 3x the weight that a vote cast in California does.
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
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In some of the constitutions written after WWII, there are better delineated things which the government is required to do in order to protect civil rights and liberties.
The US has still not even ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
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Religious fundamentalism will always be a big part of this opposition.
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SJG
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Jefferson was a smart guy. For instance, the first draft of the Declaration of Independence would have made it nearly impossible for slavery to remain legal and government sanctioned. As a political move, he elected to give up that part to preserve the whole, which allowed slavery to be abolished later, though I suspect he would have been surprised at how long it took.
Yes, he was a slave owner. Had he freed all of this slaves though, it would have accomplished nothing. Under the laws of the day, had they been recaptured by another, they would very likely have been re-enslaved, in much harsher conditions. It's not an excuse for not having the courage of one's convictions, but in the mores of the day (still wrong, even if not acknowledged as such), he was far more anti-slavery than even some today are.
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Couldn't free his slaves as they were collateral to the large debts he held. He was never able to live within his means. So everything he had was at the end owned by the bank.
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