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ButterflyEffect  ·  4345 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let’s Give Up on the Constitution - Opinion - NYTimes

I'll bring up the common argument that the constitution should be a living, breathing document. It should change with the times, but unfortunately touching it is almost a taboo, reserved for only the most important of situations. Even then, it's a monumental task to get anything changed.

We shouldn't abandon it, but we should semi-regularly make changes to it to reflect society at that point in time.





boqeh  ·  4345 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would love if every ten years or so, there was either a revision or a got of some sort to keep it updated. I have no idea how this could be implemented without being catastrophic, but that's why I'm not working in Washington DC.

user-inactivated  ·  4345 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Completely, completely, completely agree with this. Witness Britain. No written Constitution. Hundreds of years longer as a functioning country.