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America's Constitution is terrible. Let's throw it out and start over.
The Week ^ | January 26, 2018 | Ryan Cooper

Posted on 01/26/2018 5:39:49 AM PST by C19fan

The American Constitution is an outdated, malfunctioning piece of junk — and it's only getting worse.

When written, the Constitution made a morally hideous compromise with slavery that took a war and 750,000 lives to make right. And while its basic structure sort of worked for awhile in the 20th century, the Constitution is now falling prey to the same defects that has toppled every other similar governing document the world over.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: constitution; cooper; fakenews; liberalagenda; ryancooper
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To: C19fan
The uneducated writing a column for the perennially stupid.

"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others." James Madison Federalist No. 58, 1788

41 posted on 01/26/2018 5:58:10 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: C19fan

Because rights of man are so passé.


42 posted on 01/26/2018 5:58:13 AM PST by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: C19fan

Wouldn’t it be simpler for Ryan Cooper to move to Europe?


43 posted on 01/26/2018 5:59:18 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: hal ogen

If he wants to play host to a bunch of Human Immunodeficiency Viruses (and other viruses and bacteria), I suppose that’s his business.


44 posted on 01/26/2018 5:59:21 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

Major problem in the Senate is the 17th Amendment. Get rid of that and go back to direct appointment of senators by state legislatures.

Original intent was that senators were supposed to be “ambassadors” and represent the interests of their respective states; not a “House of Lords”.

Second fix is to require foolproof voter identification.

Third fix is that your right to vote is suspended if you take money from the Government, welfare or salary. Otherwise, you have a conflict of interest.


45 posted on 01/26/2018 5:59:59 AM PST by catman67 (14 gauge?)
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To: lp boonie

Film Actors Guild


46 posted on 01/26/2018 6:01:23 AM PST by onedoug
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To: C19fan

I’m watching the hassle Jordan Peterson is getting and thank God we don’t have that problem in the US thanks to our constitution.

I feel like I’m living in Dr. Zhivago, but without the love triangle.


47 posted on 01/26/2018 6:03:09 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: dead
....and we are the MST3K cast ripping it apart at every opportunity!


48 posted on 01/26/2018 6:03:23 AM PST by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: lgjhn23

Love that Ragged Old Flag!


49 posted on 01/26/2018 6:03:44 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: C19fan

50 posted on 01/26/2018 6:04:22 AM PST by Spruce
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To: C19fan

see Gary North’s Conspiracy In Philly; Eric Peters recent, Its Doing What It Was Intended To Do; The POF and The Con is Flawed...and many b4 it/him...!


51 posted on 01/26/2018 6:04:45 AM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: C19fan

As I have told my Leftist friends, time and time again: If you don’t like a Law, get enough people to agree with you and change it. So, if they don’t like a piece of the Constitution: GET ENOUGH PEOPLE TO AGREE WITH YOU AND CREATE AN AMENDMENT AND CHANGE IT. Obama set a dangerous and reckless precedent......ignoring the Laws he didn’t want to follow. Now his minions believe they can ignore the Laws they don’t want to follow.......and if you try to hold them accountable for their criminality, you are a ‘racist, homophobe, misogynist, etc’. And they still have a louder voice with their Big Media megaphone.


52 posted on 01/26/2018 6:04:52 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell)
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To: C19fan

This guy is an idiot. There has never been a Constitution like ours nor a country like ours. We are unique and that is what guys like this hate. They want to see the US part of the crowd just like every other socialist state because misery loves company.


53 posted on 01/26/2018 6:07:13 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Paladin2

Gaydar going wild.


54 posted on 01/26/2018 6:08:51 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: C19fan

I don’t think we actually need to do this. The only thing that makes sense to me is to elect House members every four years (to end perpetual campaigning), and even that is questionable, considering that the current House has successfully passed numerous bills, only to have them die at the hands of the longer-term Senators.


55 posted on 01/26/2018 6:08:52 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (DACAs: badly spoiled housepets who aren't housebroken)
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To: Paladin2

That just figures.


56 posted on 01/26/2018 6:09:09 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: C19fan

I don’t seem to remember the constitutional scholar from the last administration having a problem with it. Funny how when a Repub gains the WH, the Constitution needs to be replaced. When are people gonna wake up to the disingenuousness of the Dem Party.


57 posted on 01/26/2018 6:10:15 AM PST by ratzoe (damn, I miss Barbara Olson)
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To: fr_freak
"...The Constitution was a great work, and has done well, but it should not be worshipped as infallible..."

True, that.

But to take the edge off of that, it DOES have the mechanisms built into it to improve it and plug the holes where they are found. It isn't the fault of the document that we don't read and follow its instructions!

58 posted on 01/26/2018 6:11:56 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: C19fan

Why don’t the America haters just leave and start their own country? A deflagged cruise ship is pretty close to the perfect laboratory for their socialist experiments. The population density is maximally high, nobody owns a car or large house to envy, nobody can buy much because it won’t fit anywhere, many rules and regulations are required to make it work, no guns, everything is free but actually costs a whole lot, and anybody that develops a taste for freedom can just be tossed overboard.


59 posted on 01/26/2018 6:12:59 AM PST by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: C19fan

The main problem with the US is an excess of democracy, created by amendments, and easily fixed by repealing them. Representation without taxation cannot work in the long run.

As for the elf that wrote this article — drown him in a slop bucket.


60 posted on 01/26/2018 6:14:02 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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