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Demeter

(85,373 posts)
13. Funny, I want to change them too
Fri Sep 11, 2015, 02:26 PM
Sep 2015

but in a way that refines the original precepts and updates the language to deal with issues resulting from modern technology and recent experience that the Constitution 1.0 didn't cover.

I've been drafting Constitution 2.0 in my spare time. The entire first section has to do with Ecology: what one can, must and must not do to the earth: land, sea and air sand even near space and the Moon; and the genomes including human, plant, single-celled, and other animals.

Then of course there is a clearer definition of who all is human and what inalienable rights each is endowed with; and very strict limits on corporations, with special laws on public monopolies not to be operated for anyone's profit: banking, utilities, education, and the government itself, which shall not be privatized, period, but run under the long-abandoned civil service codes.

If there are enough like-minded people, we can fix what's broken, and shut out the crazies and the religiously impaired. If we act first, and are prepared.

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I think many Americans are asleep at the wheel, not understanding WTF is going on, or maybe just RKP5637 Sep 2015 #1
These Fakes and Wellstone ruled Sep 2015 #2
I think you are 100% correct and LiberalLoner Sep 2015 #3
Ultimately the choice isn't Hillary or Bernie, but progressivism or Hortensis Sep 2015 #4
They don't need to replace all of it. Baitball Blogger Sep 2015 #5
Then these morons need to stop talking about supporting MineralMan Sep 2015 #6
They have already functionally crippled both houses of Congress Little_Wing Sep 2015 #7
Seeing armed, paramilitary individuals guarding our 'rights' should be a wake-up call. jalan48 Sep 2015 #8
Haven't you noticed that what they say is the opposite of what they really want. lark Sep 2015 #9
Excellent summation! silverweb Sep 2015 #10
What lark said! SoapBox Sep 2015 #14
Don't they want us to be a "Republic" and not a "Democracy"? SoapBox Sep 2015 #11
On the same theme, 43% of Republicans could support military takeover U.S. hedda_foil Sep 2015 #12
Funny, I want to change them too Demeter Sep 2015 #13
The score so far... longship Sep 2015 #15
The head of the nail should consider itself HIT! gregcrawford Sep 2015 #18
Everything said in these posts is true, but there hasn't been mention of world wide wally Sep 2015 #16
Puppets of those who want to break up the USA and make off with all the public land and oil. L. Coyote Sep 2015 #17
The oligarchs want to be monarchs tabasco Sep 2015 #19
And let us not forget the TPP gregcrawford Sep 2015 #20
What would be the solution for the non Christian minority? alfredo Sep 2015 #21
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