Sorry. I’m not a fan of monkeying with the Federal Constitution. Not for any great sense of nostalgia but because it is greatly difficult to do so and in the end, it doesn’t strike at or even acknowledge the underlying problems.
The US has 330 million people and the Federal Constitution, when ratified, covered a population not even one onehundredth of that. It was designed for a much smaller government and much smaller country. It was also designed for a population that at least had some passing knowledge or even appreciation for the principles contained therein. Can that still be said? I think not.
Conservatives and Constitutionalists have this really bad habit of thinking we’re in the majority when in fact we’re not. And our minority is spread over a huge geographic area. Sure, there are a few areas of concentration where we’re doing ok. But those are more than the exception than the rule.
Paragraph number one, I agree with not monkeying with the Constitution
Paragraph number two, “It was designed for a much smaller government and much smaller country”.
Absolutely correct on one, completely wrong on the other. I’ll leave it to you to figure out.
Paragraph number three, majority/minority, who cares, it’s the principle that matters, the Founding Fathers were certainly in the minority but the principles prevailed.
The Federalist Papers clearly rebuke that notion. The larger the country the better the Constitution would perform to the benefit of the entire country.
It was also designed for a population that at least had some passing knowledge or even appreciation for the principles contained therein
The Federalist Papers clearly support that notion.
Huh? What is it that does not strike at the underlying problem?
BTW, the constitution was designed for a republic of republics, so that it could govern across a continent.
That’s the reason restoring the constitutional republic will not be done at the ballot box.