[napscoordinator]

That pesky constitution getting in the way again? Huh? I like the constitution the way it is worts and all. I think your desire to change the constitution may just happen, but you may not like the results. You and Obama seem to be in agreement that the constitution needs to be changed.....SCARY!!!

[Longbow1969]

I think your desire to change the constitution may just happen, but you may not like the results.

You realize we have amended the constitution many times right? Sometimes it's worked out well, other times not so.

No constitution is perfect. Ours certainly isn't. The founding fathers were not Gods. We have a decent, but far from perfect system. If the founding fathers could have peered into the future and seen where we are today, I am quite sure they'd have written some (perhaps many) things differently.

[thulldud]

I think your desire to change the constitution may just happen, but you may not like the results.

Back in the Sixties we were all given the mantra, "old enough to fight, but not old enough to vote?" It seemed to make sense, until you realized that being old enough to hold a gun and shoot when ordered doesn't entail the maturity to decide what should be shot.

But in those days maturity itself was under attack.

I'd like to see that pesky constitution returned to more of its original form, mainly by repealing every amendment that includes the clause "Congress shall have power", etc.

Congress had plenty of power to start with.

[hinckley buzzard]

You may be amused to learn that a substantial faction of the Constitutional Convention wanted the vote to be seriously restricted, and one plan was to limit the vote to property owners. The system we got was a compromise out of necessity, based on pragmatics, not principle.