It's a tricky thing isn't it? On the one hand, the Constitution had a lot of good ideas. On the other hand, it was written in a different time, under extraordinarily different circumstances with regards to the state of the Union.
I think that in order for ours to be an effective system of governance, there must be a certain amount of flexibility -- for certainly to be without it would be to admit such hubris and contempt for the possibility of fault-finding self-examination -- and yet also a certain degree of rigidity, or at least something to prevent succumbing to the fickleness of mob rule.
But in either case I do not think that clinging religiously to a document written over 200 years ago is a good idea, no matter how sagacious and far-seeing its scribes. I'd write more, but I am clearly using up all of my goo-goo juice that I should be using on my paper.
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I think that in order for ours to be an effective system of governance, there must be a certain amount of flexibility -- for certainly to be without it would be to admit such hubris and contempt for the possibility of fault-finding self-examination -- and yet also a certain degree of rigidity, or at least something to prevent succumbing to the fickleness of mob rule.
But in either case I do not think that clinging religiously to a document written over 200 years ago is a good idea, no matter how sagacious and far-seeing its scribes. I'd write more, but I am clearly using up all of my goo-goo juice that I should be using on my paper.