Posted on 09/07/2018 6:15:23 AM PDT by C19fan
If the United States has a sacred text, it’s the Constitution. Americans are taught, from an early age, to venerate the 231-year-old document, which occupies what can only be described as a shrine at the National Archives. The presidency of Donald Trump illustrates the problem with this veneration. It is not that Trump lacks for critics, but that the Constitution does. Not enough people connect the dots between our political dysfunctions and the sacred Constitution of 1787.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
The Constitution’s dysfunction extends far beyond any individual president. Thanks to its variety of “veto gates,” the document makes it nearly impossible to pass legislation truly meeting the problems facing the country.
That was the intention of the Founders. They wanted legislation to be difficult to pass in order to prevent a faction from shoving laws down the throat of the people.
The Framers simply didn’t anticipate how deeply partisanship would hollow out Congress’ willingness to hold a president accountable.
Partisanship developed from Day 1. Did the author forget about the battles between the Federalists v. Democratic-Republicans? The whole point of the Constitution was to prevent a faction, i.e., party from having unchecked power.
The last “reboot” to the Constitution occurred in 1992. It’s called a Constitutional Amendment. The author should read Article V.
“The Framers simply didn’t anticipate how deeply partisanship would hollow out Congress’ willingness to hold a president accountable. “
What a bunch of happy-horsesh*t.
Yeah, the framers of our constitution just weren’t as smart as this blogger. They just couldn’t have ever anticipated that different political parties might not agree with each other.
What the constitution needs is to be followed. Let’s start with the 1st, 2nd and 10th amendments.
A constitution designed by Politico would be akin to a Yugo.
The founding fathers were way way smarter than the vast majority of the folks in D.C.
Funny how those old white guys without degrees from our (diversity buttlicking) universities were quantum levels above the ones we have now.
Commie asswipes! And just for the record...learning about the constitution “at an early age” ain’t happenin. Public screwel system won’t have it.
You should read what the British dummies over at The Guardian say about the Constitution - which they think was written only to defend slavery. Stupidity, cupidity is worldwide!
Funny how those old white guys without degrees from our (diversity buttlicking) universities were quantum levels above the ones we have now.
That’s because they never disagreed because they were all old white slave owning land owners who wanted to hold on to power...
/sarc
“The Constitution as written prevents us from rounding up all Christians and marching them off to the killing fields where we can bash their heads in with baseball bats (cuz we don’t like guns either), so we think it needs to go.” ~ politiho
Oh yeah…we should let the Democrat Socialists rewrite our Constitution. They can rename it “The Communist Manifesto 2.0.” No thanks.
Reboot? Re-read is more like it.
The Constitution Needs a Reboot
Wouldn’t expect less form that site.
The main weakness is in not preventing the tyranny of the federal bureaucracy. We do not have self rule, it is an illusion.
“Americans are taught, from an early age, to venerate the 231-year-old document...”
BS if they are. They’re taught how to put on rubbers.
What needs to be “booted” are the traitors.
I attended a class recently....made up of non-Americans (I was the only one in the class), and the topic of Constitutions came up. Oddly, the US Constitution is actually one of the more limited and less detailed Constitutions in existence. Some of these would require an entire afternoon to go and read through. Most in the room regarded their own Constitutions worthless because it wasn’t so much about rights....but more so, as limiting their rights.
This is just a thinly veiled anti-Trump screed under the pretense of Constitutional reform. The authors main complaints are, 1. the electoral college (I.E. Trump got elected rather than Hillary). 2. Removing a president is too difficult (I.E Trump again, of course) the author apparently wants some sort of bare majority “no confidence” mechanism like in parliamentary systems. 3. Do away with the veto. (I’m guessing he would feel differently if Obama was still President...)
This guys basic reason for hating the Constitution is because he hates Trump, and there’s no Constitutional way to just get rid of him.
TDS.
The World according to Garp.
The Constitution according to Levinson.
Not much difference.
After all its a living breathing document subject to change whenever I want to rub my crotch./S
The left loses an election, loses the Supreme Court legislature,loses on the economy, loses on Foreign Affairs, wants to get rid of federal Law Enforcement, open the borders for free access,wants one set of laws for leftists and another for Republicans,and its time to amend the Constitution? The left wants to change The Constitution to The Restitution.
Eff them every single one!
PDJT needs to keep beating them like a drum! Mr. President, take them to the wood shed!
...sustained by a political class wrongly taught to worship as scripture a document whose deep flaws are becoming clearer by the day...
he author is a Constitutional Law “Professor” at the University of Texas.
This legal “scholar” also called Scalia the trash talker of the Supreme Court.
He is a major part of the problem with Law School education in the US.
>>> The Constitution Needs a Reboot
Uh, a definite NO.
Only the Liberty Tree need new blood to water it, now more than ever.
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