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treestar

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13. Amazed at the size of the country

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Reply #10)

Sun May 25, 2014, 10:43 PM

May 2014

Probably happy about that - going from coast to coast.

Distressed by the fact of the Civil War.

Totally amazed a black man is President.

A bit upset about the foreign wars. Or maybe very proud of all the power that means? Maybe the Founders would like the idea of being a superpower in the world. Probably didn't enter their heads.

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The wisdom of the founding fathers [View all] Algernon Moncrieff May 2014 OP

Are you proposing a constitutional convention to redo the constitution el_bryanto May 2014 #1

What a shit show that would be.... Slip_n_Slide May 2014 #2

Can you imagine the circle-jerk the GOP would put on for the Country? rustydog May 2014 #11

I don't think we could get enough states to agree to a CC, no matter what the issue. Algernon Moncrieff May 2014 #8

Basically agree, but there are too many right wingers to change most amendments like the 2nd. Hoyt May 2014 #3

We could make a start treestar May 2014 #4

Fighting the gun lobby will have to be a long, slow process. Algernon Moncrieff May 2014 #12

The Seventh amendment is not really a problem. former9thward May 2014 #5

I'd just like it fixed for the record Algernon Moncrieff May 2014 #9

Many of the founding fathers were slave-owning racists. Nye Bevan May 2014 #6

I wonder what the guy in your avatar would think of America in 2014? Algernon Moncrieff May 2014 #10

Amazed at the size of the country treestar May 2014 #13

I think there's a lot they couldn't possibly have imagined Algernon Moncrieff May 2014 #14

I think he would be amazed and humbled that the original Constitution still survives, Nye Bevan May 2014 #16

Oh, well... linuxman May 2014 #7

Not going to happen LittleBlue May 2014 #15

Once, somebody said that to women who wanted the vote Algernon Moncrieff May 2014 #17

Your Three Middle Points are now moot Wolf Frankula May 2014 #18

Precisely the point. The Constitution was imperfect, but has been fixed over time Algernon Moncrieff May 2014 #20

Good post Cali_Democrat May 2014 #19