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bucolic_frolic

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2. The whole thing was supposed to be re-written every decade or so? No.
Mon Jun 26, 2023, 04:27 PM
Jun 2023

It was designed to accommodate change as powered by voters and elections, every 20 years, each generation would toss the incumbents and elect their own. And they wanted voters to be intelligent enough to read and have some vested interest in society. We are failing that test today. People don't focus on the great new thing, democracy, because it's an old tired thing now, and they don't have time to think about it anyway. Smart phones, $$$, and EV's are more important.

There's more wisdom and experienced statesmanship in the Constitution than it is credited with.

You can't, or shouldn't write a Constitution in an age of polarization. The deck will be stacked. You could have done this in the 1950s, or the 1970s, or even the 1930s, but not today. You think Republicans have advantages now? Ask them to write a new form of government.

It's true the Founding Fathers were white property owners. But they stood with the State. And society must have some form of enduring rules. Without them you have chaos. Or a libertarians' dream - the sum of private interests, pitched to the wealthiest.

The OP is a terrible idea.

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