Go back to the Constitution of the individual states BEFORE the Federal Constitution came about.
Most of those rights were already in the State Constitutions.
Damn right it would pass today.
“Damn right it would pass today.”
Clyburn, for whatever else he is, was at least being honest. We are NOT living in the same environment that we did in 1789-91:
1) We have a lot of pissed off minorities with voting power and representation. Now, they deserve representation - but that doesn’t mean that they’d vote for the BOR.
2) We haven’t just been through a war to gain our freedom. In fact, we have schools teaching our children and grandchildren to have contempt for our rights. Hell, even in law school - where they’re supposed to teach, you know, THE LAW - they have been glossing over the 2nd Amendment for decades.
3) We do not share the same morality (as a percentage of the population - of course individuals do) that the Founding Generation did.
NONE of those factors mitigates toward the BOR being re-ratified if they were put up for a vote, no matter how much you and I would like that to occur, nor how much or how well we could argue for any or all of its provisions.
Fully 1/3 of the population would literally enslave the rest of us, if not just exterminate them outright...and you think that they’d want the BOR re-ratified?