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Wolf Frankula

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18. Your Three Middle Points are now moot
Mon May 26, 2014, 12:14 AM
May 2014

Last edited Mon May 26, 2014, 12:46 AM - Edit history (1)

Amendments have changed apportionment and how taxes are done, how senators are chosen, and that about Persons held to Service or Labour.

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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
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