I wouldn’t get defensive. I tend to share San Jocinto’s initial reaction. Our constitution has been so basterdized and trampled in the past and doubly so in the past 8 months, it is hard to debate what we should have done to begin with. Had we stuck to the very core principles of the constitution this country would be far better.
No offense.
That said, the original federation would not have lasted and the world would be very much different today. It would be a lot worse. But then, we wouldn’t know the difference.
>Our constitution has been so basterdized and trampled in the past and doubly so in the past 8 months, it is hard to debate what we should have done to begin with.
One thing that really gets me about the bastardization/trampling is the complete disregard for the simple sentence: “No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.”
Note that this prohibition against either laws targeting a single person (or group) or retroactive laws is written in the passive voice, it has no constraints to either the level nor the branch of government. And yet we see such laws fairly common now (esp taxation).