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


               
2015 Jul 31, 12:53pm   14,079 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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59   FortWayne   2015 Aug 4, 10:02am  


OK, so start writing! Please post your new constitution in this thread.

I have some ideas for it:

* publicly funded elections

* absolute prohibition on secret courts

* absolute prohibition on national security letters

* a right to privacy in all your electronic communication unless you are specifically named as a suspect in a crime

* specifically affirming that corporations and unions are not legal persons. only "natural born" humans are persons.

* prohibition of income tax and sales tax, to be replaced with a land value tax and tax on radio spectrum

+1

60   MisdemeanorRebel   2015 Aug 4, 10:16am  

Dan8267 says

A slave, by definition, is not free from coercion including threats against her life. What manner of scum would consider a slave master having sex with his slave not to be rape?

A major forgotten idea from the Enlightenment: Authority and Power corrupts the wielder worst of all.

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