Time for a new constitution

[JakeStarkey]

Our pubs and dems remind me of the communist cadres in the USSR split into warring factions in the last days of the Union.

 

[Vidi]

Benjamin Franklin said that there would come a time when Americans were so corrupt that that Constitution would no longer be applicable. That time has come.

Katz, you dont post much I agree with, but on this you and I just might agree. I still have a little idealism left in me, but Im almost there with you on this one.




As far as a New Constitution? Personally, I think the only problem with the current Constitution is how different we all seem to interpret it. Maybe instead of a new one we just need a supplimental interpetation guide.

 

[whitehall]

Yeah right, the greatest Document ever created by humans is rewritten and turned into a board game by alleged Americans allegedly educated by union teachers.

 

[JWBooth]

A new constitution?

Bet ya get fooled again.

 

[Artevelde]

Let me be the first to suggest retaining the existing constitution.

I will second that.

 

[Artevelde]

Yeah right, the greatest Document ever created by humans is rewritten and turned into a board game by alleged Americans allegedly educated by union teachers.

Don't underestimate the power of the stupid side!

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

There aren't ten people we can trust. We don't trust the Supreme Court with nine and they have jobs for life.
The US is a political being and it may be that it will be our political divide that destroys us, We have a Congress that is totally disabled and can barely mumble political remarks that make sense. The job of Congress seems to be sit and wait for the next election. Whichever side loses they will wait for the election and see if they won, if not, back to sitting. In the first 100 days of the New Deal Congress was scared and acted to save the nation and legislation was passed that is still valid today. Maybe that was the high point for Congress? Those days seem to be over, however. We hold Congress in low esteem but will vote for our Senators and Representatives again--and again. The 1787 Constitution is it, if we can keep it.

 

[Katzndogz]

Yeah right, the greatest Document ever created by humans is rewritten and turned into a board game by alleged Americans allegedly educated by union teachers.

The greatest document ever written was referred to as fatally flawed by the presidebt himself. Ruth Bader Ginsberg, a Supreme Court Justice finds the Constitution so offensive she would not suggest that anyone be forced to be governed by it. She specifically referred to the Constitution of South Africa as superior.

Just the very fact that anyone in the US finds the Constitution now inadequate should be the major issue. Obviously if the Constitution is so superior we have having an extraordinarly hard time communicating that to the public.

 

[JWBooth]

Yeah right, the greatest Document ever created by humans is rewritten and turned into a board game by alleged Americans allegedly educated by union teachers.

The greatest document ever written was referred to as fatally flawed by the presidebt himself. Ruth Bader Ginsberg, a Supreme Court Justice finds the Constitution so offensive she would not suggest that anyone be forced to be governed by it. She specifically referred to the Constitution of South Africa as superior.

Just the very fact that anyone in the US finds the Constitution now inadequate should be the major issue. Obviously if the Constitution is so superior we have having an extraordinarly hard time communicating that to the public.

Not the best arguments for change, nor the kind of sources that are going to convince many to join the cause.

 

[peach174]

The people that are complaining about our Constitution, are the ones who can't do the political things that they want to do.
It stops complete socialism, dictator's and tyrants.
In other words, government taking complete control the people.

 

[JWBooth]

Here is a suggestion:

Avalon Project - Articles of Confederation : March 1, 1781

 

[JakeStarkey]

No, the Articles of Confederation were unsuited to a nation entering the modern age.

Federalist Papers put finish to any need for any such form of government.

Here, Booth, you can benefit from some reading: Federalist Papers

 

[there4eyeM]

It is hypocritical that the US does not either return to the Constitution or modify it to correspond to the current system.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The US is "returned" to the Constitution.

You don't agree is the issue, not the Constitution.

 

[tjvh]

I think rather than changing (or improving) the Constitution people start abiding by it so America might get back to the business of being prosperous, and those who suggest altering the Constitution may feel free to emigrate to whatever other nation's Constitution better suits their ideology.

 

[signelect]

Just because the current administration either hasn't read and understood the one we have or they are just ignoring it so a new one will have the same problem unless we let Obama write one. Maybe that is why he has covered up some of his educational past..

 

[JakeStarkey]

I suggest to those lefties and righties who cannot abide the constitutional and electoral process as provided by our legislature and our SCOTUS, leave.

 

[Big Black Dog]

There is nothing wrong with the Constitution that we have EXCEPT our President seems to be doing everything he can do to destroy it.

 

[there4eyeM]

It is selective memory to think that only the current occupant of the White House, the administration and the Congress have worked harm on the Constitution. It has been going on for far too long. The central government does not function according to the letter or intention of the document.
At the same time, the world has changed as well and America's place in it. There is nothing necessarily 'left' or 'right' in that way of thinking. It is not an attack on what America could be, only a criticism of what it is.

 

[Moonglow]

I agree.

Go write a new constitution in the country known as get-the-fuck-out-of-my-country.

eeeewwwww, so grouchy.