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I think it's time we write a new constitution for the USA. Our old one is outdated, and doesn't really apply to our times now. What are your thoughts?
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I think it's time we write a new constitution for the USA. Our old one is outdated, and doesn't really apply to our times now. What are your thoughts?
I think it's time we write a new constitution for the USA. Our old one is outdated, and doesn't really apply to our times now. What are your thoughts?
I think it's time we write a new constitution for the USA. Our old one is outdated, and doesn't really apply to our times now. What are your thoughts?
Had those who drew and ratified the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment known the components of liberty in its manifold possibilities, they might have been more specific. They did not presume to have this insight. They knew times can blind us to certain truths and later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in fact serve only to oppress. As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, Lawrence v Texas (2003)
I think it's time we write a new constitution for the USA. Our old one is outdated, and doesn't really apply to our times now. What are your thoughts?
OH BOY!! THIS will be a fun thread!
I'm waiting for someone to strike down the right to free speech, assembly and the right to vote for certain people of a certain background.
Counting down to the first post that does that in ten, nine, eight, seven.....
I think it's time we write a new constitution for the USA. Our old one is outdated, and doesn't really apply to our times now. What are your thoughts?
OH BOY!! THIS will be a fun thread!
I'm waiting for someone to strike down the right to free speech, assembly and the right to vote for certain people of a certain background.
Counting down to the first post that does that in ten, nine, eight, seven.....
I'm not for any of that; I am for a clear definition of when our troops can be put into harm's way, expanding election day to election week (or weeks) so that any troubles at the polls are able to be addressed while the elections are still going, the size of the federal budget relative to GDP, making campaign advertising for federal office free of charge to those running to get money out of politics (somewhat)... Big ideals.
I, personally, also would like to see rules written into the document that would do certain things like ensuring a minimum of 6 Presidential debates between all candidates who receive a certain modicum of support--not just democrats and republicans. Two each on Foreign Policy, Domestic Policy, and Domestic Spending. Each series of two debates will have the first one be a standard debate where large circulation media asks questions of the candidates; the second is where each one will ask a question of the others on stage.
I think it's time we write a new constitution for the USA. Our old one is outdated, and doesn't really apply to our times now. What are your thoughts?
I think it's time we write a new constitution for the USA. Our old one is outdated, and doesn't really apply to our times now. What are your thoughts?
Rewrite the constitution? No way shape or form. Follow the constitution is more the ticket.
It's not perfect and there are some minor changes that might be needed, but on a scale of 1 to 100 I'd give it at least a 97.
We can change our constitution, it is not an easy process, and it was designed that way. That is one of the greatest things about it.
OH BOY!! THIS will be a fun thread!
I'm waiting for someone to strike down the right to free speech, assembly and the right to vote for certain people of a certain background.
Counting down to the first post that does that in ten, nine, eight, seven.....
I'm not for any of that; I am for a clear definition of when our troops can be put into harm's way, expanding election day to election week (or weeks) so that any troubles at the polls are able to be addressed while the elections are still going, the size of the federal budget relative to GDP, making campaign advertising for federal office free of charge to those running to get money out of politics (somewhat)... Big ideals.
I, personally, also would like to see rules written into the document that would do certain things like ensuring a minimum of 6 Presidential debates between all candidates who receive a certain modicum of support--not just democrats and republicans. Two each on Foreign Policy, Domestic Policy, and Domestic Spending. Each series of two debates will have the first one be a standard debate where large circulation media asks questions of the candidates; the second is where each one will ask a question of the others on stage.
The ambiguity of the constitution is part of its strength. You are asking for a strict written set of rules/laws that leave no room to grow or for emergencies/disasters.
Rewrite the constitution? No way shape or form. Follow the constitution is more the ticket.
It's not perfect and there are some minor changes that might be needed, but on a scale of 1 to 100 I'd give it at least a 97.
We can change our constitution, it is not an easy process, and it was designed that way. That is one of the greatest things about it.
Rewrite the constitution? No way shape or form. Follow the constitution is more the ticket.
It's not perfect and there are some minor changes that might be needed, but on a scale of 1 to 100 I'd give it at least a 97.
We can change our constitution, it is not an easy process, and it was designed that way. That is one of the greatest things about it.
I disagree; the practitioners of government (politicians if you will) were once public spirited and placed that spirit above politics. That spirit is dead. So every loophole is exploited.