The Constitution should be rewritten every 5 years

[Markle]

what a tremendous idea! SMART!

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

for many generations, Americans have not had an experience of making change. if we were now to pen a New Constitution based on contemporary society and our accumulated experience, we would rail against the failures of democracy, capitalism, and citizenship.

So feel free to pen one.

Frankly I don't want our current murder of political crows, on either side, anywhere near my Constitution.

 

[basquebromance]

for many generations, Americans have not had an experience of making change. if we were now to pen a New Constitution based on contemporary society and our accumulated experience, we would rail against the failures of democracy, capitalism, and citizenship.

So feel free to pen one.

Frankly I don't want our current murder of political crows, on either side, anywhere near my Constitution.

ok i will.

WE THE PEOPLE...resolve that self-love and love of power are immutable human tendencies, that such tendencies mean all societies bend toward corruption and tyranny, that the purpose of government is to safeguard our liberty but government itself can threaten liberty, and therefore that power must be set against power in unending contest so no single interest can ever dominate.

repeal the 2nd amendment.

repeal the 10th amenment.

TERM LIMITS.

now do your version!

 

[boedicca]

what a tremendous idea! SMART!

What a horrible idea. Fortunately, the Founders had the prescience and common sense to put safeguards in place to prevent "ignorant of history morons" like you to ruin The Constitution.

 

[regent]

Since the Constitution was ratified it has been amended 27 times and changed innumerable times. Alabama's Constitution has been amended over 850 times. Is our Constitution is too hard to change to keep up with America's needs? Perhaps trial amendments would fill the bill? Would it still be wrong to let Americans vote on amendments?

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

for many generations, Americans have not had an experience of making change. if we were now to pen a New Constitution based on contemporary society and our accumulated experience, we would rail against the failures of democracy, capitalism, and citizenship.

So feel free to pen one.

Frankly I don't want our current murder of political crows, on either side, anywhere near my Constitution.

ok i will.

WE THE PEOPLE...resolve that self-love and love of power are immutable human tendencies, that such tendencies mean all societies bend toward corruption and tyranny, that the purpose of government is to safeguard our liberty but government itself can threaten liberty, and therefore that power must be set against power in unending contest so no single interest can ever dominate.

repeal the 2nd amendment.

repeal the 10th amenment.

TERM LIMITS.

now do your version!

My version already exists.

 

[boedicca]

for many generations, Americans have not had an experience of making change. if we were now to pen a New Constitution based on contemporary society and our accumulated experience, we would rail against the failures of democracy, capitalism, and citizenship.

So feel free to pen one.

Frankly I don't want our current murder of political crows, on either side, anywhere near my Constitution.

ok i will.

WE THE PEOPLE...resolve that self-love and love of power are immutable human tendencies, that such tendencies mean all societies bend toward corruption and tyranny, that the purpose of government is to safeguard our liberty but government itself can threaten liberty, and therefore that power must be set against power in unending contest so no single interest can ever dominate.

repeal the 2nd amendment.

repeal the 10th amenment.

TERM LIMITS.

now do your version!

My version: leave it as is.

Your version is a nonsensical and delusional Utopian view that just enables totalitarian thugs to turn people into slaves.

No thank you.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Since the Constitution was ratified it has been amended 27 times and changed innumerable times. Alabama's Constitution has been amended over 850 times. Is our Constitution is too hard to change to keep up with America's needs? Perhaps trial amendments would fill the bill? Would it still be wrong to let Americans vote on amendments?

The process for change is intentionally difficult. It prevents tampering via the whims of the mob.

 

[boedicca]

Since the Constitution was ratified it has been amended 27 times and changed innumerable times. Alabama's Constitution has been amended over 850 times. Is our Constitution is too hard to change to keep up with America's needs? Perhaps trial amendments would fill the bill? Would it still be wrong to let Americans vote on amendments?

Yes, it would be wrong to subject the Constitution to transient pop culture mob rule.

An Amendment is serious business...so a lengthy process for a super majority approval makes far more sense than "trial" amendments. It's quite astonishing that you would think that a trial would be anything other than a powerplay to subvert the Constitutional protection of minority viewpoints.

 

[basquebromance]

for many generations, Americans have not had an experience of making change. if we were now to pen a New Constitution based on contemporary society and our accumulated experience, we would rail against the failures of democracy, capitalism, and citizenship.

So feel free to pen one.

Frankly I don't want our current murder of political crows, on either side, anywhere near my Constitution.

ok i will.

WE THE PEOPLE...resolve that self-love and love of power are immutable human tendencies, that such tendencies mean all societies bend toward corruption and tyranny, that the purpose of government is to safeguard our liberty but government itself can threaten liberty, and therefore that power must be set against power in unending contest so no single interest can ever dominate.

repeal the 2nd amendment.

repeal the 10th amenment.

TERM LIMITS.

now do your version!

My version: leave it as is.

Your version is a nonsensical and delusional Utopian view that just enables totalitarian thugs to turn people into slaves.

No thank you.

you can't have totalitarian thugs with term limits. you're the thug for not agreeing with my beautiful New Constitution (TM)

 

[boedicca]

for many generations, Americans have not had an experience of making change. if we were now to pen a New Constitution based on contemporary society and our accumulated experience, we would rail against the failures of democracy, capitalism, and citizenship.

So feel free to pen one.

Frankly I don't want our current murder of political crows, on either side, anywhere near my Constitution.

ok i will.

WE THE PEOPLE...resolve that self-love and love of power are immutable human tendencies, that such tendencies mean all societies bend toward corruption and tyranny, that the purpose of government is to safeguard our liberty but government itself can threaten liberty, and therefore that power must be set against power in unending contest so no single interest can ever dominate.

repeal the 2nd amendment.

repeal the 10th amenment.

TERM LIMITS.

now do your version!

My version: leave it as is.

Your version is a nonsensical and delusional Utopian view that just enables totalitarian thugs to turn people into slaves.

No thank you.

you can't have totalitarian thugs with term limits. you're the thug for not agreeing with my beautiful New Constitution (TM)

Your Beautiful New Constitution = A Handbook for Mob Rule and Totalitarians Horrors.

No thank you. I'm not interested in that.

 

[there4eyeM]

Delightfully absurd proposition that well promotes the underlying sense. Point well taken. At least, officially revisiting what the words currently mean might help the linguistically challenged understand living language.

 

[Andylusion]

Hell no. Then we would be like Russia...Turkey...Egypt..Venezuela...

Russia is not like Turkey is not like Egypt is not like Venenzwenzla

They are, in the aspect that none of them cares much for their constitution.

The whole point of a constitution is to prevent government from just doing whatever it wants, whenever it wants, without some solid defined limits.

If you are going to have the constitution re-written every 5 years... you might as well not have one at all.

Then you can just have a 'self-legalizing' dictatorship. Oh, we are not allowed to do that? Ok, let's re-write the constitution next year. Hey we can do that now! What a great system.

 

[basquebromance]

if we continue to stand up for our rights, none of us alive today will ever have to pick up a weapon against government!

 

[Markle]

Realizing that this thread is intended for humor, BUT, can anyone imagine how many THOUSAND PAGES such a document would have today?

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Realizing that this thread is intended for humor, BUT, can anyone imagine how many THOUSAND PAGES such a document would have today?

No kidding.

 

[Wyld Kard]

for many generations, Americans have not had an experience of making change. if we were now to pen a New Constitution based on contemporary society and our accumulated experience, we would rail against the failures of democracy, capitalism, and citizenship. to be ruthless, those ideas aren't delivering much cash value to the 99 percent today.

but if were being as candid and self-critical as the founders were, we would have to admit that we haven't really tried democracy yet. or capitalism. or citizenship. and certainly not all at once!

Ever heard of the quote: "If it's not broke, don't fix it"?

The Constitution that we have has been doing fine for our nation for all these years, so there is absolutely no reason to pen a "new one" just to accommodate those who may think it's outdated.

 

[LuckyDuck]

what a tremendous idea! SMART!

An extremely idiotic idea. Our Constitution is the greatest government document in existence. That document is why millions came to this continent. Those that came here, fled oppression, persecution, starvation and personal tragedies with one main thing in mind...….freedom; the freedom to have "individual" freedom and seek out their dreams without government ruling their dreams. Ancestors of those here today, fled religious persecution from the Catholic Church and Islamic Theocracy, they fled Communist oppression and persecution, the Irish fled starvation and British oppression, Africans and South and Central Americans fled oppressive Socialist nations and Military Juntas, Jews, Gypsies and handicap people fled Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. All came here to be individuals free of tyranny. And, our Constitution granted them those freedoms that they sought.
That said, it does not negate our negative past. We have had slavery and genocide, both black stains on our history, yet it would be difficult to point to any region on this planet that has not had the same thing. Blacks point to our history and say how evil it was....and it was.....yet in Central and South America, they had several times more black slavery in their history, but they don't acknowledge their past. Muslim nations had by far, the most black slavery, castrating the males so they couldn't reproduce. All races, including whites, were slaves at some point in history. It has always been man's inhumanity towards man that has been mankind's history.
Here in this nation though, the Constitution remains today to be a beacon for those seeking freedom and to pursue their own dreams.

 

[abrere]

all you'd have is arguing about the new constitutions. Nothing would get done, everyone would be afraid to produce anything due to its probably being seized by somebody, taxed severely (same thing). our nation would collapse.

 

[JBvM]

what a tremendous idea! SMART!

5 years recipe for anarchy and chaos. 20 years? back then it may have seemed reasonable, but we must remember that they had a unity of purpose, which was making the grand experiment succeed. This is why they compromised so much.

It mas seem counter intuitive, but today we need a longer time than 20 years. We are so unlike the founding generation in almost every way imaginable