[Loud Mime]

My, my...how we've kept the Founders" dreams alive!

[Loud Mime]

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[who_would_fardels_bear]

We're supposed to revere our Constitution because, unlike those of other nation's, it is simpler and more concise.

However, it is also vague, and that vagueness has come back to haunt us over and over again.

Nowhere in the Constitution does it clearly identify who it applies to. This, of course, is on purpose because when it was ratified it only applied to white propertied males.

The later addition of amendments, rather than clarifying this issue, only made thing murkier allowing for all kinds of nonsense such as affirmative action.

Typical contracts clearly identify who the party of the first part is and who the party of the second part is. We can't even get a consensus on when a person becomes a person and is protected by the Constitution.

Vagueness also allowed people to justify the creation of the welfare agencies, the Interstate Commerce Commission and other legislative atrocities.

We can blame liberal lawyers and constitutional scholars for misinterpreting the Constitution, but it is the Constitution's vagueness that opened the door for such misinterpretations.

Any time anyone suggests amending the Constitution to clarify the terminology, all we get from conservatives is a fear-drenched rant against convening a constitutional convention which could, in some unrealistically nightmare scenario, lead to the complete imposition of a socialist dictatorship.

We need to own up to the fact that we will soon no longer be a Christian nation, that a lot of what went unsaid in the constitution requires the implicit understanding of Christian principles, and that we need to make those principles explicit in new amendments.

Else the "living constitution" will continue to grow more like a weed than the flower our founding fathers intended.

[Prokopton]

"Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution." James Madison (Federalist No. 39, 1788)

April 12, 1861, ended that idea.

[wastedyears]

Still a chance to keep them alive.

[Founding Father]

"Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution." James Madison (Federalist No. 39, 1788)

You telling me Honest Abe Lincoln lied?!!!