Time to get rid of the Constitution and replace it with something more modern

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Time to get rid of the Constitution and replace it with something more modern

2015 Jul 31, 12:53pm 14,091 views 60 comments

http://www.nationaljournal.com/innovation-works/a-how-to-guide-to-blowing-up-the-constitution-20131031

America, we've got some bad news: Our Constitution isn't going to make it. It's had 224 years of commendable, often glorious service, but there's a time for everything, and the government shutdown and permanent-crisis governance signal that it's time to think about moving on. "No society can make a perpetual constitution," Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison in 1789, the year ours took effect. "The earth belongs always to the living generation and not to the dead. Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years." By that calculation, we're more than two centuries behind...

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georgeliberte @ 2015 Jul 31, 1:04pm

Good article and I reservedly like the parliamentarian system; however, I would retain our Bill of Rights and actually effect them.

HydroCabron @ 2015 Jul 31, 1:09pm

Good luck getting this past the crowd who believes in a government best suited to an agrarian, pre-industrial polity.

Dan8267 @ 2015 Jul 31, 1:22pm

georgeliberte says

however, I would retain our Bill of Rights and actually effect them.

I would write a new, far more encompassing bill of rights that included privacy rights and body rights.

Heraclitusstudent @ 2015 Jul 31, 4:50pm

HydroCabron says

Good luck getting this past the crowd who believes in a government best suited to an agrarian, pre-industrial polity.

And the crowd that believes in a government best suited for a pre-agrarian, hunter & collectors, leave me alone, wild frontier.

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