My problem with this is that, to me, it’s like saying we need foxes that don’t eat chickens.
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It is my FRiend and this is the nature of sin. We are all fallen and all fallible. We have all missed the mark. When you trust anyone other than God your trust is misplaced. Men will interpret any document written — and they can choose to ignore it. I like your idea of lack of implied powers by the way. Would need a mechanism for very fast modification though, when unforseen emergencies arise, and that very mechanism will make the entire document subject to rapid change limited only by the politics of the moment . . . which would then make the document meaningless and constantly changed. it would end up being one of those state constitutions with 2,400 amendments, each one a field open to the lawyers and judges to write law . . .
It does seem like we're chained to the ground, doesn't it?
And by the way, that’s why I am a wet blanket. Talk of revolution might make us feel better, but shouldn’t we be prudent and think things through a little bit? I’m not saying do nothing. I’m just saying, these problems run very, very deep, as you have expressed. Bloodshed, to me, should be taken very seriously. Without some sense that we can actually improve things, I don’t believe it’s justified. And I think that is one of the main points, if not the main point, expressed in the Declaration.