(03-04-2022, 04:45 PM)Ronster Wrote:

(03-04-2022, 04:31 PM)mikesez Wrote: 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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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.

A political party hell bent on controlling everyone and turning us into a something the vast majority of us will never accept. Thankfully, we have a set of guidelines that protect us from our internal enemies.

The political system is bigger than one party.  It's all the legislators and judges at all the levels.  The guidelines, as you call them, are not being followed as originally intended.  You know this.  You know there aren't really two kinds of due process.  You know that freedom of contract is not listed in the constitution. You know that a lot of what Congress spends money on is not necessary and not enumerated. 
Yet you have a pretty good, stable life.  You know what to expect from the government, you know what you can do to change it, and you know what your rights are.  The same ones who play fast and loose with some of the words written in 1787 are the ones who show restraint and deference to you and make sure that we keep having elections, and public comment periods, local law enforcement, and all the other stuff that keeps this place from turning into Russia.  The documents are great, but they're worthless without people.

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