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NNadir

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15. This constitution, for all of its flaws, functioned fairly well, for over two centuries. Now...

Reply to madaboutharry (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 6, 2018, 12:31 PM

Oct 2018

...however, it is insufficient to deal with the times, mostly because of the original flaw, the original sin, slavery.

The structure of the document was designed to protect slavery, and the single most noxious clause is that creating the Electoral College, a slave enhancing device. (Only one President among the first five was not a slave holder, and he, among them, was the only one to serve a single term.

We need a new constitution; this one is too broken. Unfortunately, as we live in an age of the celebration of ignorance, I cannot imagine a group of people competent to write a workable example.

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