It can't be improved.
Posted on 07/03/2020 5:20:56 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
A law professor at the University of Texas-Austin has called for the US Constitution to be ‘updated’, claiming that it has ‘racist words’ and that it is written in ‘gendered language’.
Writing in The Hill this week, Richard Albert stated that the document’s “gendered and racist words stand in the way of true reconciliation in this divided country and have no place in any modern society.”
“The Constitution is replete with obsolete and outdated language that weakens rather than enhances the feeling of belonging that a constitution should generate among a country’s citizens,” the professor proclaims.
The ‘racist’ part of the Constitution, Albert claims, comes in the 13th Amendment, despite the fact that it actually abolishes slavery.
Albert argues that the Fugitive Slave Clause remains, claiming it serves as “a painful reminder of America’s original sin.”
Albert also argues that because all pronouns in the Constitution are male, it is discriminatory.
“Imagine how schoolchildren must feel when they read the Constitution in their basic civics course. Some will be made to feel less than welcome in their own country… The highest law of the land creates a hierarchy of citizenship.” he writes.
The professor also argues against claims that altering the Constitution as it was written would water it down, claiming that if “racist and gendered terms” are removed, then the Constitution “would celebrate equality and inclusion, and give Americans a text proudly to call their own — one in which they would see themselves and their hopes reflected.”
Got my vote.
He probably prefers the constitution of the former USSR, it was supposedly based on the US Constitution, but “improved” with update ‘rights of the Soviet people.’
We need much more discriminations against PCdiots.
The Constitution was written over a couple hundred years ago. The Bible was written even further back. ‘Course they aren’t “modern”, and we’re proud of ‘em both. Don’t change a thing.
Idiot professor. That is not what a constitution is for.
Richard Albert is the William Stamps Farish Professor in Law and Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.Born and raised in Canada, he has published over eighteen books, including Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions (Oxford University Press 2019). He is the Founding Director of the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism.
Another Marxist. And a Canadian to boot.
yup...
It can't be improved.
Blow it out your..... I’m so sick of this
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The wretched professor from texas.
Children are not taught “Basic Civics” at school, so they never hear those words anyway. Unless, of course, they have parents who make sure they do.
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These fools are like the ones who “modernized” Bible passages with “It” for God so as to avoid sexist He or exclusionary She. “It” doesn’t work for anyone.
Then, find a country with a constitution to your liking, and move there.
Bet there isn’t any better anywhere.
We need to have some “regulators” to go from town to town and erase these peoples disharmonious voices, and cancel their jobs and social standing.
Agreed
The board of morons passed the guy(professor).I said nothing about the founders.
I have a better idea, let’s get him a ticket to Venezuela and he try his update shit there. Don’t like Our Constitution, don’t like our America? In the words of the Duke America Love It or Leave It...........so Mr. law professor GTFO!
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