Are you a fan of the US Constitution?

I think it has some good ideas, some not so much. I have trouble condemning it too harshly for the slavery thing considering the strained conditions under which it was written... although that might be giving the writers a bit too much credit, considering that many of them owned slaves despite their criticisms of it.

For the most part yes. The basic structure of checks and balances, three-separate, co-equal branches of government has generally worked well. I want two reforms however; First: nullify the electoral college and elect the president by popular vote. Two: Supreme court justices should have limited, not life-time terms.

Certain features were forced into the Constitution by the conflict between the slave-states and the free states. In 1791 the Federal republic was not in the position to take on the slave states in a military conflict.

By 1860, however, when the Civil War started, the Free states (the Union) had the industrial might to out-manufacture the slave-owning states, which were mainly agricultural and dependent on slave-labor. In 1865 the 13th Amendment was passed which outlawed slavery and allowed the newly freed slaves to join the Federal army and navy. Thus the newly liberated former slaves became liberators.

A bunch of rich white guys who didn't want to pay their taxes. Sound familiar?

I am pro #BLM and even with Thomas Jefferson”s faults he did write an essential document for our democracy. Now if the current guy in the WH wasn’t so seditious it would have a better chance at working.

Well, white property owners, actually. Black people were counted for census and congressional representation purposes as 3/5 of a person.

Forty of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence owned slaves. Under the Constitution, a slave was counted as three-fifths of a free person. Ten of the first 12 presidents owned slaves. This is who we were as the United States became a nation ... and some of us continue to live as if this was current day.

Listen, we all have our faults... 🙄

The second most important and individual empowering piece of legislation ever published, right behind the Magna Carta.

You know, do as we say not as we do. It’s a solid good start that we should reform, but the last three Supremes are “traditionalists” so I don’t think this is going to happen soon.

It’s a pretty good one, even if not perfect like some burgers pretend. But yes, quite hypocritical.

Do you think it’s too late to beg the UK to take us back? 😭😭😭

It’s easy to say, when you don’t see others as human