The Constitution’s 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.
That was the intention of the Founders. They wanted legislation to be difficult to pass in order to prevent a faction from shoving laws down the throat of the people.
The Framers simply didn’t anticipate how deeply partisanship would hollow out Congress’ willingness to hold a president accountable.
Partisanship developed from Day 1. Did the author forget about the battles between the Federalists v. Democratic-Republicans? The whole point of the Constitution was to prevent a faction, i.e., party from having unchecked power.
The last “reboot” to the Constitution occurred in 1992. It’s called a Constitutional Amendment. The author should read Article V.
“The Framers simply didn’t anticipate how deeply partisanship would hollow out Congress’ willingness to hold a president accountable. “
What a bunch of happy-horsesh*t.
Yeah, the framers of our constitution just weren’t as smart as this blogger. They just couldn’t have ever anticipated that different political parties might not agree with each other.
What the constitution needs is to be followed. Let’s start with the 1st, 2nd and 10th amendments.
A constitution designed by Politico would be akin to a Yugo.
The founding fathers were way way smarter than the vast majority of the folks in D.C.
Funny how those old white guys without degrees from our (diversity buttlicking) universities were quantum levels above the ones we have now.
Commie asswipes! And just for the record...learning about the constitution “at an early age” ain’t happenin. Public screwel system won’t have it.
“The Constitution as written prevents us from rounding up all Christians and marching them off to the killing fields where we can bash their heads in with baseball bats (cuz we don’t like guns either), so we think it needs to go.” ~ politiho
Oh yeah…we should let the Democrat Socialists rewrite our Constitution. They can rename it “The Communist Manifesto 2.0.” No thanks.
Reboot? Re-read is more like it.
The main weakness is in not preventing the tyranny of the federal bureaucracy. We do not have self rule, it is an illusion.
“Americans are taught, from an early age, to venerate the 231-year-old document...”
BS if they are. They’re taught how to put on rubbers.
What needs to be “booted” are the traitors.
I attended a class recently....made up of non-Americans (I was the only one in the class), and the topic of Constitutions came up. Oddly, the US Constitution is actually one of the more limited and less detailed Constitutions in existence. Some of these would require an entire afternoon to go and read through. Most in the room regarded their own Constitutions worthless because it wasn’t so much about rights....but more so, as limiting their rights.
This is just a thinly veiled anti-Trump screed under the pretense of Constitutional reform. The authors main complaints are, 1. the electoral college (I.E. Trump got elected rather than Hillary). 2. Removing a president is too difficult (I.E Trump again, of course) the author apparently wants some sort of bare majority “no confidence” mechanism like in parliamentary systems. 3. Do away with the veto. (I’m guessing he would feel differently if Obama was still President...)
This guys basic reason for hating the Constitution is because he hates Trump, and there’s no Constitutional way to just get rid of him.
TDS.
The World according to Garp.
The Constitution according to Levinson.
Not much difference.
After all its a living breathing document subject to change whenever I want to rub my crotch./S
The left loses an election, loses the Supreme Court legislature,loses on the economy, loses on Foreign Affairs, wants to get rid of federal Law Enforcement, open the borders for free access,wants one set of laws for leftists and another for Republicans,and its time to amend the Constitution? The left wants to change The Constitution to The Restitution.
Eff them every single one!
PDJT needs to keep beating them like a drum! Mr. President, take them to the wood shed!
>>> The Constitution Needs a Reboot
Uh, a definite NO.
Only the Liberty Tree need new blood to water it, now more than ever.
The framers of the Constitution did not want a government that was efficient at anything. A government with an absolute monarch is very efficient, just not pleasant to live under.
Leftist/statists cannot understand that the intent of the founders was not an all powerful government that grants a paltry number of rights to the people, but rather a government that is limited to a few areas of responsibility with strict accountability by the governed. Is the Constitution perfect, of course not, no system of government devised by man is perfect. The Constitution can and has been changed when two thirds of congress and three quarters of the states agree. History has shown our constitutional government has given us freedom unrivaled in human history, and a standard of living envied by the world.
Constitution requires humans to be elected to Congress. We would be better served if we could pick a donkey or an elephant, reporting to one human. It would have zero effect on votes.
Three reasons why this is a good idea:
1. It would save a boatload of money;
2. Donkeys and elephants are quieter; and
3. The mess the donkeys and elephants make is easier to clean up.
Actually, the critical and foundational American document is not the constitution, that is the format of our government and while it is a unique example of checks and balances and of representational republican ideology, what truly is ground breaking and exciting is the American Declaration of Independence.
Whereas the constitution represents the mechanics, the how if you will the DOI declares the Right to claim Liberty and Independence to form one people’s own safeguards for that liberty, and even extends the Right further-to declare that those same people indeed have the right and responsibility to safeguard their liberty even to the point of throwing off the one they created if and when it fails to protect that which was sacred to them in the beginning-Liberty. Government exists only to protect the Rights, Privileges and Immunities of the people who empower it. Any time when those key principles of government are being voided, then the people themselves, in whom all civil power is vested, have the duty to correct the azimuth or even to throw off these methods and set new ones. Radical Huh?
Of course, the Founders recognized that some groups would perhaps see the need to reorganize earlier and for less than necessary reasons- so they described in detail how a long train of abuses and usurpation had to be addressed and then and only then, if redress failed and the only logical conclusion was the removal of the rights of the people to govern through representative republican methods, then revolution, the throwing off of those parameters and methods and safeguard and the establishment of new ones was appropriate.
I daresay that we are not there- sure, there are groups within our “posse comitatus” that want to throw off everything, there always ahs been and always will be the extreme fringes, but for light and transient reasons; the course is held.
We enjoy elected representation, our officers appoint and bodies politic advise and consent and due process is carried out, with groaning and failings for certain, but until our local state and federal legislatures are dissolved, and judges and executives self appointed and we have descended into near complete tranny, we must operate within the context of the constitutional framework- the methods selected and ratified by the people, modifying it via lawful means (laws and amendments) as we see fit and appropriate.
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 CONSTITUTION IS NOT THE PROBLEM....
The problem is the government NO LONGER OBEYS THE LAW AND INDIVIDUALS WALK AWAY UNPUNISHED....
THAT IS THE PROBLEM...
No it doesn’t.
It needs to be followed.
NO,NO,NO, AND H3LL NO!!!
These traitorous tricksters do and say everything they can to destroy our great US Constitution.