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What's wrong with the constitution?

helenS · 36-40, F
If your post refers to the American constitution:
(a) your president has too much power
(b) your president should be elected democratically.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Picklebobble2 Russia, Russia, Russia!
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@sunsporter1649 🙄Really ? I think only the few bought that line.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Picklebobble2 Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine!
Not a thing. Just like religion, it's the way it's interpreted and practiced that makes the difference.
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
The main change I would make is to nullify the Electoral College. Other than that, the U.S. Constitution, with its system of checks and balances of 3 separate branches of government is pretty good. The parliamentary system has some advantages, such as more democratic proportional representation, but also some problems. The founders themselves didn't think the Constitution was perfect. They designed this document to be modify-able. Amendments have been added over the years; In 1865 the 13th Amendment was added which outlawed slavery. In 1920, the 19th Amendment was added which gave women the vote.

There is one feature of the Constitution that has never been used: If 2/3 of the states so vote, Congress must hold a Constitutional Convention, to modify the Constitution. So far, that has never happened.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@badminton Another democrat that has never read the reasoning behind the college, I see
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
@sunsporter1649 I maintain that the framers erred with the electoral College. In elections each vote should be counted. With the EC, the electors are appointed by the political parties in each state.

Also, it is wishful thinking to assume the electors would be totally objective and unswayed by their own politics, or they could be bribed or otherwise influenced. We should live up to our claims of being a free country and a democracy and put the EC in the past where it belongs.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@badminton Elections are much to important to be left to the voters
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
Nothing written 300 years ago translates well today.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@sunsporter1649 Only one party in power man. If you have no fear from the Democrats why all the stupidity around Trump ? Even NOW ?
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Picklebobble2 Your three year temper tantrum over losing an election is amusing. Get over it, you lost
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@sunsporter1649 ....and STILL you sh*tpost !
Harriet03 · 41-45, F
It's being ignored! 🤷‍♀️
Graylight · 51-55, F
Nothing, if it's taken for what it is: an exemplary template for new governments, open to interpretation and nearly perpetual updating.

The Constitution, among other things and despite attempts to make it untrue, is completely inclusionary. No amendments exist to exclude people or groups. But even as they were writing it, the founding fathers (as verified through numerous other texts) expected out of common sense that the documented would be reinterpreted, added to and refined as time demanded. To treat it like an immutable word from on high is contrary and dangerous. The US Constitution is a guide, a formula. It is not sacred text from God.
Carissimi · 70-79, F
It’s the best document of governance ever written. The Founding Fathers were very wise, and the Constitution is timeless in its wisdom.
4meAndyou · F
No jail time set up by the founders for the sh!theads in Congress who keep trying to grab all the power using illegal means, and eff the rights given to the people of the United States of America.
SW-User
Nobody wants to follow it
curiosi · 61-69, F
NOT A THING!
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
Shannon27 · M
Nothing wrong with the Constitution. It's the people were are electing to public office that are making a mess of things.
yeronlyman · 51-55, M
I mean the right to bare arms doesn’t need to be in a constitution, just saying

😏
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@yeronlyman Tell that to those folks protecting their farms in Montana from wolfpacks, or the folks in Pennsylvania protecting their families from lions
yeronlyman · 51-55, M
@sunsporter1649 yep, I bet they like to bare arms alright

Nothing wrong with that 😏
SW-User
It’s not adhered to and used as a weapon from one side when the other side isn’t doing what they want
Virgo79 · 61-69, M
Some keep trying to ammend it to change course of things in their favor
It’s obsolete. It’s like Britain still being run on Magna Carta.

 
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