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Does The Constitution Need an Overhaul?
Youtube.com Video ^ | 7/1/2025 | John Stossel

Posted on 07/01/2025 9:29:34 AM PDT by Pol-92064

Friday is #July4th, when we celebrate America’s independence and the documents that made America different, like the Constitution.

But is our Constitution good enough today?


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1 posted on 07/01/2025 9:29:34 AM PDT by Pol-92064
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To: Pol-92064

NO.


2 posted on 07/01/2025 9:30:44 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. Psalm 33:12)
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To: Pol-92064

No. The Government needs an overhaul to bring it back inline with the express limits in the Constitution. The USC needs to be mostly gutted as a large portion of the crap that has been added to it is blatantly outside the scope of the US Con.

Looking right at you USC Title 18 Chapt 44...


3 posted on 07/01/2025 9:31:20 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: stars & stripes forever

You left out the “HELL” preceding no.


4 posted on 07/01/2025 9:31:28 AM PDT by Waverunner (Torah! Torah! Torah! my favorite IDF radio code.)
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To: Pol-92064

Following what it says would be a good start.


5 posted on 07/01/2025 9:31:57 AM PDT by StACase ("The Climate Crisis" is a text book example of "The Big Lie")
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To: Pol-92064

I’d happily get the 5.5” U.S. Constitution floppy and do a fresh install before we stated patching the hell out of it. I don’t believe the Constitution needs an overhaul, the electorate and the elected officials need one.


6 posted on 07/01/2025 9:32:26 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: Pol-92064

No - people’s thinking needs an overhaul.


7 posted on 07/01/2025 9:33:34 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: stars & stripes forever

NO. Once you open that door, hell will follow.


8 posted on 07/01/2025 9:36:42 AM PDT by Kaiser8408a (i )
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To: Pol-92064

The answer is NO.


9 posted on 07/01/2025 9:37:06 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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To: Pol-92064

It’s been “overhauled” 27 times already. There’s a clear process for “overhauling” it.

It is the most brilliant concept for self-governance ever created by Man. It is timeless and adaptable via the amendment process. Its biggest achievement is holding government at bay (even though it is not doing as good a job as I would like in that regard). The Founders never anticipated the rise of a Fourth Branch, the Regulatory State.


10 posted on 07/01/2025 9:38:34 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: Pol-92064

Yeah, we need George and Alex Soros and all the other foreign billionaires to have a new mission to reign Hell down on the US.


11 posted on 07/01/2025 9:40:27 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Pol-92064

I’d be happy to see the 16th and 26th amendments repealed.


12 posted on 07/01/2025 9:40:38 AM PDT by sevlex
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To: Pol-92064

But is our Constitution good enough today?
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Our Constitution was inspired by God. The notion of changing our Constitution is idiotic, much like trying to change God’s written word, the Bible.

That said, we are witnessing the Methodists, Presbyterians, Anglicans, etc trying to do just that….and they are splitting up, fracturing and blowing away into non existence for it.


13 posted on 07/01/2025 9:41:16 AM PDT by delta7
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To: Pol-92064

Proposed Amendment 28:

Christ Jesus, the only and eternally begotten Son of the Father, is King.


14 posted on 07/01/2025 9:42:11 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Antihero101607
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams to the MA Militia, 1978

Our Constitution was designed for people who were self-reliant, responsible, whose morality and behavior was not, at its root, prescribed by law, but by the Bible.

Its natural, now that the majority of our people (and our national ethos) have become secular, amoral, self-centered and materialist, that we would want a Constitution that falsely promises us more free stuff, and also attempts to have government social-engineer society in place of God.

15 posted on 07/01/2025 9:44:44 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: stars & stripes forever

Not overhauled but some amendments need to be added.

No lifetime tenure for federal judges including the USSC, and change the standards for impeachments

Defined birthright citizenship/clarify the 14th amendment

voter ID

eliminate the 17th

balanced budget

feel free to add your own


16 posted on 07/01/2025 9:45:19 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: Pol-92064
Not an overhaul, but clarifying some positions regarding the powers of the federal government would be great. Social welfare programs of all kinds should happen only at the state rather than federal level.

Also make some changes to citizenship and immigration. I would definitely include a provision giving states the right to control their own borders with other countries. The only exception would be Federal controlled border crossings.

Oh, and gives states standing to challenge the grant of any federal payments or benefits to individuals that are in violation of the law or Constitution.

17 posted on 07/01/2025 9:46:34 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin ( )
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To: Pol-92064

Except for clarification of 14th Amendment:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States”

When an illegal gives birth in the US and then leaves, is their newborn subject to the jurisdiction of the US and for that matter if their parents stay and invite all their relatives to join them, are they then subject to the jurisdiction of the US? I don’t believe the founders ever intended that Amendment to be used for anything except give the freed salves the right to have the same freedoms as other natural born citizens enjoy.


18 posted on 07/01/2025 9:49:52 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (In a way ge is right as)
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To: Pol-92064

No!


19 posted on 07/01/2025 9:52:44 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Pol-92064

No, it needs to be followed.


20 posted on 07/01/2025 10:04:28 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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