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How would a modern First Amendment read, or a modern Second Amendment?

I've been thinking about this purely as a thought exercise. It would also include things on making voting rules for the house and senate more strict, to prevent schmucks like Rubio from keeping their seat for long, before being automatically removed for dereliction of duty and losing the public trust.

1 posted on 07/01/2016 5:50:22 PM PDT by wastedyears
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Leave the citizens alone or be ready to accept the consequences of not doing so. End Of Story.


2 posted on 07/01/2016 5:51:27 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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No offense, but whatever words are there, will always be able to be interpreted 180 degrees different than originally intended, if your desire is to do that.


3 posted on 07/01/2016 5:54:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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All that is necessary is to forbid the use of the word “person” to mean any form or representation of any kind of corporate entity.

That’d do it.


4 posted on 07/01/2016 5:54:46 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho FTW!


5 posted on 07/01/2016 5:55:29 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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The liberals are re-wording it every day, but without changing a word.

They are changing the meaning of words themselves and language itself.

And, for the younger generation that has not challenged what they've been taught, it's working.

They have successfully made sense look like evil, and evil look like common sense.

They have also cut off the thought process ... to even think, to consider ... will take your mind across some one of the now thousands of hate crimes, because to think is to distinguish.

The evil happening is happening at a level BELOW and BEFORE language. It's at the pre-cognitive where symbols are created, not where they are picked and arranged.

7 posted on 07/01/2016 5:56:45 PM PDT by tinyowl (A equals A)
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Reword as in use simple words everyone understands like “is,” “marriage,” “woman,” “man,” etc?


8 posted on 07/01/2016 5:58:13 PM PDT by piasa
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Translate it into Mexican...


9 posted on 07/01/2016 5:59:48 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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1. DUCK

2. AND COWER!


11 posted on 07/01/2016 6:00:02 PM PDT by disndat
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Nooooo!


13 posted on 07/01/2016 6:02:19 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Haha wastedthreads.


14 posted on 07/01/2016 6:10:37 PM PDT by major-pelham
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I have. My new versions goes as such, though likely not acceptable for younger audiences:

The government, is such exists, shall leave citizens the @*)# alone to live thier lives as they shall so chose with no interference.


15 posted on 07/01/2016 6:11:01 PM PDT by reed13k
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The Preamble to the Constitution should include a statement that it “has more electrolytes”.

Seriously, it means what the media’s advertisers tell them to say it means.

EG: The new sex pervert rights are an abomination of every author and ratifier’s intent and language.
But perverts are big bucks for the media.


17 posted on 07/01/2016 6:18:44 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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so as to prevent another zer0 in the future


That’s anathema to a free country.

As HL Mencken said, “The voters deserve to get what they want, and they deserve to get it good and hard.”


18 posted on 07/01/2016 6:20:20 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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Sure, liberals have been wating to reword, if not out right burn those documents, for over a century.

I can appreciate the desire to reword it for the modern 21st century. But the failure is not not in the words, or their 18th century meaning.

The failure is in our government controlled education system.

Let’s change that instead.


19 posted on 07/01/2016 6:22:59 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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“Congress shall pass no law” period.


20 posted on 07/01/2016 6:38:23 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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so as to prevent another zer0 in the future.

Wording doesn't matter to liberal judges or Presidents.

21 posted on 07/01/2016 6:52:28 PM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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NO


22 posted on 07/01/2016 6:52:43 PM PDT by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.56)
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tl;dr version, yes I have. It's not finished.

longer version: Updated first and second amendments-- and third, which references an unwritten 4th that would require paper search or arrest warrants physically served at the public entrance to the place to be searched.

1. Congress shall be neutral in matters of religion, neither approving nor prohibiting the public display or exercise of religious belief by Citizens. Congress shall not regulate the spoken or printed word, neither aiding nor preventing any Citizen in the expression in words of any idea. Congress shall neither prevent nor assist the peaceable gathering of Citizens for any purpose whatsoever, especially when such a gathering is purposed to demonstrate the will and petition of the Citizens. The concept in law of criminal thought or speech is abolished. Henceforth, “crime” is defined as “an overt act of force or fraud”.

2. The right of the Citizen to weapons is inviolate. A Citizen may own weapons, carry them from place to place openly or concealed, obtain such materials as enable maintenance and lawful use of them, without hindrance, regulation, or taxation. Any attempt to disarm a Citizen not in the commission of a crime shall constitute Treason, and be punished by public hanging.

3. Citizens will not be compelled to admit into their homes civil or military agents of the government for any purpose or duration except as provided in paragraph 4.

Longest version, some of the rest that I have written.

We, the People of the United States of America, are the sovereign authority within the Several States that form the Nation, and thereby within the Nation as a Whole. Whether we act individually, or collectively by common consent, each of us is the lawful equal of any of us. We have determined by that consent that a Constitution—a basic Law that shall stand as the final authority by which all other laws are measured, and either confirmed or nullified—is a necessity for the preservation of the Sovereignty of the People, with all of their rights and liberties;

• To strengthen the unity of the Nation, while retaining the essential rights and character of the States;

• To provide the People with an environment of liberty, secure against threats from within or without; and

• To provide a means to the end that, should the Nation or any State come under attack from without, to meet such attack with overwhelming destructive force of a kind that will leave the attacker regretting having entertained the thought of such attack.

Article 1.

Section 1

All authority to make law is vested in the Congress of the United States, which consists of a Senate and House of Representatives.

The lawmaking authority cannot be delegated by the Congress to another agent or agency; nor may any agent or agency pretend to make law with or without the approval of Congress.

Any law made by Congress must quote that portion of Article 1, Section 8 of this Constitution which permits such law to be made, to a minimum extent of one complete sentence. Words, phrases and clauses are insufficient.

Section 2

The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States.

No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of United States Citizens in each State.

The actual Enumeration shall continue to be made every ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct, counting the number of Citizens, and for purposes of posterity recording their names, sexes, kinship relationships to the head of each household, and ages at the end of the year in which the enumeration is made, and no other information; such records to be sealed for a period of seventy years and then published without copyright.

25 posted on 07/01/2016 7:11:20 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (Mohammed was a war mongering pedophile rapist who started a Satanic death cult. Arrest me, Lynch.)
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I’m sure some libtards have thought of doing just that.


27 posted on 07/01/2016 7:16:56 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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REALLY BAD idea.

The re-wording would be fraught with problems, and written totally differently by liberals and constitutional conservatives - and the two documents would look like they came from two different planets.

A good friend and I were discussing how different sects of Christianity can each back up their positions with scripture - and a lot of it.

So we thought we’d offer a new website: You tell us your beliefs, and we will provide all the scriptures to support them. For $100. Believe in suicide? “Judas went and hanged himself.” “Go thou and do likewise.....”

For $200, we’ll compile a whole list of doctrines to support your beliefs with supporting scriptures.

If you want a sermon on any belief - another $100.

Scripture is often abused by the bias of the interpreter.

And the Constitution is no different. Roe v. Wade being perhaps the prime example.


28 posted on 07/01/2016 7:32:36 PM PDT by Arlis
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