[A CA Guy]

Hi, I thankfully have no clue about your ass and have no desire to find out. I do NOT live in San Francisco. It is so bad there I hear that if you drop your wallet, rather than bending over to pick it up, you kick it to a safe city! LOL

On the issue of the Constitution, I agree it gives it's power to the Congress, Senate and all that. I also agree that in many cases the way it is interpreted seems to suggests that the Courts are all full of Yoga Masters!
But the main area that you don't like that I think is a true fact is that if they didn't interpret the Constitution with current law, you'd have to go with adding on amendments. If you do that you would have a Constitution with amendments that would make it look like the tax code law books (LARGE LOADED AND CONFUSING)! In future years I could see where you would easily have more than 13,000 amendments if the current system didn't exist.
That in my opinion would reduce the original Constitution to just a nice old piece of history as originally written. And NONE of those in Congress wanted that, so we have what we have. (FROM WHAT I HAVE READ SO FAR)!

If you don't like the current way of doing it you would get the 13,000 amendment method. That would be far more out of control and was why the current way won out from what I read. I am a logical guy and it makes sense to me over the alternatives.

Can you come up with a third way that would work better without being sarcastic for real? Right now we have two choices:
#1 current system.
#2 thousands of amendments (confusing).
#3 your sincere heart felt better ideas?

You have to realize there is no way to just go back to the original without amendments because we simply do no live in the 1700s any more. The idea of amendments up the kazoo just isn't efficient. I don't work for the Government at all, but I can't think of an easy answer to this.

PS: Please next time leave your ass out this and use your gray matter upstairs.

Best wishes to you and may you and your family have a wonderful Easter. God Bless!

[William Terrell]

On the issue of the Constitution, I agree it gives it's power to the Congress, Senate and all that.

The Constitution created Congress. Without the Constitution there would be no Congress. And all that.

But the main area that you don't like that I think is a true fact is that if they didn't interpret the Constitution with current law, you'd have to go with adding on amendments.

The Constitution controls the law that can be passed. If the interpretation of a law is not consistant with the Constitution, it's unconstitutional.

If you do that you would have a Constitution with amendments that would make it look like the tax code law books (LARGE LOADED AND CONFUSING)! In future years I could see where you would easily have more than 13,000 amendments if the current system didn't exist.

Methinks you joust with phantoms. In 180 years there have been 26 amendments made, and 10 of them were made in one swoop, so you could really say that 16 amendments have been made in 180 years. To give you the benefit of the doubt, we'll use the 26 instead of the 16. That means that it would take 90,000 years to get to 13,000 amendments.

I have to admit I don't understand most of what you said. We have a Constitution at the federal level and one each at the state level. These constitutions limit the making, execution of and judging the application of, laws. Since the people of the nation brought the government that exercises these powers into being, only they, not the government creature they created, can change it.

The government can propose changes, but the people (within the states) must ratify. The only alternate way of changing any constitution would be to have government officials do it, therby enabling created creatures the power to alter their own creation.

Please clarify what you want. I haven't been able to make it out. What I've read is incoherent. Are you saying that the Supreme Court, another creature created by the people, should make de facto changes to the Constitution? So that it can change with the "times"?

If that is your remedy, I would say that the Constitution and constitutions are to govern the behavior of people who administrate the laws in America. The "changes" in the "times" are only measured by technology social theories. People and their behavior has not changed no matter what the advances in technology or social theory.