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America's Constitution is terrible. Let's throw it out and start over.
The Week ^ | January 26, 2018 | Ryan Cooper

Posted on 01/26/2018 5:39:49 AM PST by C19fan

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To: C19fan
...the Constitution is now falling prey to the same defects that has toppled every other similar governing document the world over.

The documents did not fail, the governments did. Those governments failed because it became routine to violate their constitutions.

61 posted on 01/26/2018 6:14:15 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: C19fan

The bill of rights alone makes it the best compact ever drawn up by humans. The constitution isn’t the issue. It’s the anti-constitutionalists who are finding in it an obstacle to pure socialism.


62 posted on 01/26/2018 6:14:31 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: C19fan

One can propose changing or even creating a new constitution without expressing complete and utter distain for the old one. Throw it in the garbage? Really? What kind of demented America hating pervert would write that? Not one whose ideas should be given any credibility.

“Worse, the ironclad two-party system has proved to be highly vulnerable to an extreme right-wing fringe that protects itself with gerrymandering and other cheating tactics. “

The author calls out right wing extemists (of which there are very few) and completely ignores left wing extremists (which is now the mainstream DemocRAT party). By his standard Mitt Romney is probably considered a Nazi while Nancy Pelosi and George Washington were ideological bedfellows. Again, the man is demented.
The Repubs and Conservatives have moved quite a bit left since 1960 but are still in sight of where they were back then. Since that same time the RAT party has moved so far left as to be almost unrecognizable.


63 posted on 01/26/2018 6:16:35 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Couple of thoughts.

-This is yet another reason why the thought of an Article V Convention scares the crap out of me.

-Though I am intrigued by the thought of Question Period with Trump.


64 posted on 01/26/2018 6:17:06 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: C19fan
Parliamentary systems are less stable than the US Constitution. The parliamentary system he's thinking of, in Great Britain, didn't come into its present form until the mid 1800s during Queen Victoria. What is also missed is the United States is a federation. A parliamentary system would spell the end of the United States as states and regions, disagreeing with the central parliament, would declare their independence. America would quickly end up like Europe. Divided into many separate countries each jealous of the others, each ready to go to war.

A better fix is to abolish the senate filibuster and to return to State appointment of senators. Senators should be like ambassadors of their states. Perhaps, also, get rid of civil service unions and job protections. They work against the best interests of the people. This will be difficult to do because the democrat party has always hungered after power. It remains the counter-American Revolution party, from Aaron Burr' plotting through FDR's fascism to Obama and Hillary's undermining.

65 posted on 01/26/2018 6:17:41 AM PST by captain_dave
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To: NorthMountain
What we have is not a failure of the Constitution, but a refusal of people in government to obey it.

And that is EXACTLY what is wrong.

We have a faction of communists who don't believe in the constitution and have worked assiduously to subvert it. They have been successful to a fairly large degree because they have subverted the other institutions (i.e.education) to the point where we have barely a society, and one that simply does not even understand the constitution or basic citizenship.

66 posted on 01/26/2018 6:19:42 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: Reeses

Speaking of ships, there was a story every child read back in my day. It was called The Man Without a Country. It should be required reading for everyone!


67 posted on 01/26/2018 6:19:43 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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Someone that never took the time to read nor understand the Federalist papers or the ant-federalist papers. Once studied you will understand that the Constitution is based on human behaviors that never change alongside the laws of the Universe and nature.


68 posted on 01/26/2018 6:19:44 AM PST by USCG SimTech
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To: Paladin2

Among men who lie with men, Ryan Cooper is the one on the bottom.


69 posted on 01/26/2018 6:28:58 AM PST by oldvirginian (Its for the children and kick the can down the road. Two phrases that make my trigger finger twitch.)
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To: C19fan

“...a republic, if you can keep it....”


70 posted on 01/26/2018 6:33:08 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE ("If guns cause crime, there must be something wrong with mine." -Ted Nugent)
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To: C19fan

Leftists have always hated the Constitution because it’s a huge obstacle to their goals and objectives. Pry it from our cold, dead hands.


71 posted on 01/26/2018 6:33:30 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: DoodleDawg

The original Constitution is fine but some of the Progressive Era amendments need to be reconsidered. The 18th was such a bad idea that it has already been repealed, but we should consider getting rid of the 16th and 17th amendments.


72 posted on 01/26/2018 6:34:53 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: C19fan

secular humanist libtards are obsessed with evolution. They believe that the Constitution is outdated and obsolete and needs to evolve


73 posted on 01/26/2018 6:36:14 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: C19fan

IOW -he wants the mob rule of the majority - not a republic of states.


74 posted on 01/26/2018 6:38:36 AM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yeah exactly. Why are these people still here if they hate the country?


75 posted on 01/26/2018 6:40:36 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: FlingWingFlyer
There is a constitution in North Korea, but it’s self-nullifying just like constitutions in all other leftist states.
76 posted on 01/26/2018 6:42:43 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: C19fan

The U.S. Constitution is probably the most brilliant and inspired political document in modern history maybe in all of recorded history.

This guy is a leftist hack. Why post this bull shit?


77 posted on 01/26/2018 6:43:16 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: C19fan

in the Philippines, we had similar discussions of Charter Change to a Constitutional Assembly.

Wags shortened this to “CHA CHA to CON ASS”.


78 posted on 01/26/2018 6:44:42 AM PST by LadyDoc (Liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: EdnaMode

Because they believe that this country is the only credible threat to world socialism and want to bring it down, that’s why.


79 posted on 01/26/2018 6:45:07 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: C19fan

Okay.
Dissolve the whole country, then have a new convention of states, and anyone who wants to sign on, can, and the rest can go their own way.


80 posted on 01/26/2018 6:45:13 AM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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