[Huck]

True enough, but the fact that it needs to be remedied indicates there is something fundamentally wrong with the way the system is working.

The fixes are built-in. No problem. Except for the millions of people. THAT'S the problem.

[tacticalogic]

The fixes are built-in. No problem. Except for the millions of people. THAT'S the problem.

It still doesn't sit right with me. By your reasoning, it's perfectly rational that the politicians and judges play word games and engage in creative semantics with regard to the constitution, and it is the responsibility of the electorate to be constantly amending the Constitution and re-wording it to counter that.

Your assertions that everything is as it should be and there is no reason to consider anything "broken", if logically extended, culminates in a determination that until there are no longer enough firearms in the hands of private citizens to take back the government by force, everything is hunky-dory.

[B. A. Conservative]

Actually, there are about one hundred million people on each side of the Constitutional debate regarding individual rights versus big government. Remember the county by county election map from USA Today? This map suggests that a peaceful geo-political division of the United States is possible long conservative-liberal lines.