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The Constitution Needs a Reboot
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| September 7, 2018
| Sanford V. Levinson
Posted on 09/07/2018 6:15:23 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: Manly Warrior
Vote, Write, Speak, adjure and cajole if need be, but do not accept the false premise that the ship is sinking and all we are doing is rearranging the deck chairs.
God Bless the American People, the most generous, long suffering, freedom loving and fierce people on the face of the earth. The Founding Fathers were incapable of imagining that in the future we could be dealing with ignorant, irrational, or even unreasonable citizens.
Incompetents today can't grasp the difference between "the people" as the original citizens of the United States, not every individual in the entire world.
Similarly, the founding Fathers were incapable of imagining that the "citizens" of the future could or would embrace koranimals as a religion, with all Constitutional rights and protections.
Just to list two of dozens of insane examples. Actions by a clueless public, incompetent Legislators and even tribal and pervert politics by Supreme Court Justices.
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posted on
09/07/2018 12:35:07 PM PDT
by
publius911
(Rule by Fiat-Obama's a Phone and a Pen)
To: Sasparilla
This legal scholar also called Scalia the trash talker of the Supreme Court.Because Scalia spoke truth, and TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!
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posted on
09/07/2018 12:55:48 PM PDT
by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: C19fan
The Constitutions dysfunction extends far beyond any individual president. Thanks to its variety of veto gates, the document makes it nearly impossible to pass legislation truly meeting the problems facing the country. Somehow, I think that if the Republicans decided to nuke cloture completely, and started passing Trump-favored legislation over the screams of the Dems, that this author would be among the first to start screaming hysterically.
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posted on
09/07/2018 1:01:16 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
("It rubs the rainbow on it's skin or it gets the diversity again!")
To: PapaBear3625
The Federal Government was not created to rule over us, but rather to perform specific functions for the States that created it.
Opinionated chaps like the author do not bother to read it as an entity, so they do not really understand it.
Constitutional Overview
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posted on
09/07/2018 1:11:09 PM PDT
by
Ohioan
To: mabarker1
AND Comprehensive Understanding of Simple Words, Definitions, Punctuation and Sentence structure. And... the certain rejection of errors (including punctuation!) in any manuscript copies distributed to the 13 States.
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posted on
09/07/2018 1:58:33 PM PDT
by
publius911
(Rule by Fiat-Obama's a Phone and a Pen)
To: C19fan
Not enough people connect the dots between our political dysfunctions and the sacred Constitution of 1787. There's stupid, and then there's "stupid on steroids."
No State ratified the Constitution without the Bill of Rights, which was not added to the "Final" Constitution until the end of 1791...
Anyone venerating (or disparaging) the "sacred" 1887 version is a certified idiot!
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posted on
09/07/2018 2:09:52 PM PDT
by
publius911
(Rule by Fiat-Obama's a Phone and a Pen)
To: mabarker1
America is at that awkward stage where it’s too late to work within the system but still too early to start slitting throats
yet... there may come a time when you must spit on your hands, raise the black flag and start doing just that...
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09/07/2018 3:31:26 PM PDT
by
Chode
( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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