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


               
2015 Jul 31, 12:53pm   14,074 views  60 comments

by Dan8267   follow (4)  

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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1   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.

2   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.

3   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.

4   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.

5   HEY YOU   2015 Jul 31, 6:06pm  

The problems with this govt. must be the fault of the Modern Whig Party,Freedom Socialist Party,United States Marijuana Party,Transhumanist Party, etc.,etc.,etc. These idiots took over the govt .by force & will destroy this here "America of the United States".

I've thought better & realized none of these have ever had any political control. So it's in the lap of Democrats & Republicans & their stupid voters.

George Carlin:
"By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care! Good honest hard-working people; white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cock suckers who don’t give a fuck about you….they don’t give a fuck about you… they don’t give a FUCK about you.''

"They don’t care about you at all… at all… AT ALL. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Thats what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick thats being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth.''

"It's called the American Dream,because you have to be asleep to believe it."

6   Dan8267   2015 Jul 31, 6:50pm  

DieBankOfAmericaPhukkingDie says

If it works for the bronze age, it's works for me!

GOP Perpetual Slogan

7   MisdemeanorRebel   2015 Jul 31, 8:10pm  

Starting with national proportional representation so every vote counts. It wouldn't matter if you're the only Republican voter in Ann Arbor, your vote would go towards the Republicans nationally and count. Also, strategic voting where you get 5 points to assign among Parties (or give one all of them), so you can vote your heart and then the second choice, and throw a point to the lesser evil.

8   Ceffer   2015 Jul 31, 8:17pm  

Why a whole new Constitution when SCOTUS just legislates what the fuck it wants, anyway, depending on which way the wind is blowing.

9   Troll for real   2015 Aug 2, 7:30am  

Time to stop bitching and start shooting!

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