you (and I and all others) cannot ask dead people what they meant, nor can we ask a piece of paper what it means. in order to avoid those fuitless tasks, we have appointed 9 people to speak on behalf of the constitution.
My general opinion on the matter is that we had a document written by slavers who only wanted white, land-owning males of a certain age to vote.
The entire interpretation system is essentially a crutch on the garbled, vague mess we call a Constitution.
We need to rewrite it to bring it more in line with not only other national documents, but more reflective of the time we live in. Even if we rewrote it, 10 or 20 years from now it will still have problems, especially since a lot of people are on the wrong side of history in terms of gay marriage, drug prohibition, etc.
That is not to say that everything in there gets tossed out. No, the legal progress and casework we have made until now will define most of the new document. With a new Constitution, it's possible to quell a lot of issues that, at this point, have no foreseeable end because of the vagueness of the wording that will allow a controversy to live on forever, holding us back and driving this country into third world status.
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Date: 26/4/13 19:14 (UTC)My general opinion on the matter is that we had a document written by slavers who only wanted white, land-owning males of a certain age to vote.
The entire interpretation system is essentially a crutch on the garbled, vague mess we call a Constitution.
We need to rewrite it to bring it more in line with not only other national documents, but more reflective of the time we live in. Even if we rewrote it, 10 or 20 years from now it will still have problems, especially since a lot of people are on the wrong side of history in terms of gay marriage, drug prohibition, etc.
That is not to say that everything in there gets tossed out. No, the legal progress and casework we have made until now will define most of the new document. With a new Constitution, it's possible to quell a lot of issues that, at this point, have no foreseeable end because of the vagueness of the wording that will allow a controversy to live on forever, holding us back and driving this country into third world status.