(03-04-2022, 04:17 PM)NewJagsCity Wrote:

(03-04-2022, 04:02 PM)mikesez Wrote: Who said it? "The earth belongs always to the living generation… Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19. years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force and not of right."

Thomas Jefferson.  But nowhere in that letter to James Madison did he say that the Constitution is trash.

So lets apply some liberal cancel culture logic: Jefferson owned slaves, so I guess according to this commentator, he must be trash as well.  So if Jefferson is trash, then all his opinions must be trash as well, and therefore, his letter implying that the Constitution can be changed by each succeeding generation is also trash.  Therefore, the Constitution stands, except the part written by Jefferson, which is trash by association.
There you go.

Exactly.  There are good reasons to think we should change the constitution.  Jefferson had one. But this Elie Mystal guy has a particularly bad reason.

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(03-04-2022, 04:22 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote: It's not a living document. It's an amendable document.

Totally different concepts.

It's not amendable anymore.  There's not enough goodwill in society anymore.  Maybe there will be again, but not now.
Society changes regardless, and constitutions and laws have to change in response.  When both become frozen, as ours are now, the power devolves to administrators and judges to start calling it a "living document" and reinterpreting it.
Just like nature abhors a vacuum, a political system abhors an unchangeable law.

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