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Constitutional convention is one way to amend a broken system
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Mark A. Taff
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There hasn’t been a constitutional convention in the United States since 1787, although the Constitution has been amended 27 times. If you don’t count the first 10, which were adopted almost immediately after the Constitution itself was ratified, the American people have agreed on only 17 amendments in more than 200 years.
One reason is that during the last century, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court made “landmark” decisions that gradually conditioned Americans to expect an evolving Constitution through interpretation instead of amendments.
But this wasn’t always the case. A hundred years ago, Americans regarded the Constitution as something that limited the federal government’s power in meaningful ways. |
| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(8/19/2017)
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NO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We will lose both the first and the SECOND amendment before we can count to one! |
| Comment by:
AFRet
(8/19/2017)
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If the current constitution is not being observed, what makes you think a new constitution would be obeyed?
NO, The right way to do this is to make the politicians and powers that be OBEY the present constitution. |
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dasing
(8/20/2017)
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| They can change the words, but the right is still there and will cause much violence between the unconstitutional FED and the people!!! |
| Comment by:
dasing
(8/20/2017)
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| They can change the words, but the right is still there and will cause much violence between the unconstitutional FED and the people!!! |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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