[Mudboy Slim]

"If you want to retain the Constitution you have to allow it to change too. One could argue that amendment should be the only way to do that but, as a practical matter, our present system works pretty well."

The Amendment Process was articulated in the Constitution for a reason, and that was to protect We the People from an ever-expanding Federal Leviathan sticking its nose into every aspect of citizens' lives. Instead, we have a Judiciary Branch that TOTALLY ignores the 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution and allow exactly that which the Constitution was designed to protect us. To say "the present system works pretty well" belies a satisfaction with the liberal belief that an expansionist Federal presence is an unmitigated good.

I disagree...MUD

[liberallarry]

The Amendment process.

Let me try a common sense argument. I think we have an amendment process because we're dealing with human beings. Human beings ALWAYS make mistakes (of all kinds) which have to be corrected.

A government which doesn't allow for that in a peaceful and orderly way is asking for an explosion. That seems so obvious that I'll bet the founders stated it somewhere.