It's been too long without an ammendment.
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2024
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Congress votes on party lines and there hasn’t been a 2/3 supermajority since 1977.
Sadly, we can't count on cooperation in government.
Or reason. Only loyalty.
Meanwhile china...
(I'm not a tankie but damn if they are not kicking the west's ass right now with getting shit done)
Congress votes on party lines
Hey now. I bet you we could get some kind of bipartisan amendment through if it pertained to selling arms to Israel.
You'd also not be able to own guns, or have freedom or religion or speech. Look up the meaning of Amendment why don't you.
I know fully grown adults who think the constitution has never been altered, the ammendments were always there and "just what the founding fathers worked on after signing it and sending it to king George", and that any talk about congress changing things after the fact is just 'liberal propaganda" and at least one person, when asked why they think that, responded with "well I've never seen an Ammendment happen in my lifetime so obviously it doesn't happen."
Several of these adults are related, so I can see why multiple people in the same family might hold that belief, but the fact that I know MORE THAN ONE is insane to me.
I went to school in a non-religious school that was very much a religious area. Sex Ed was basically the scene in Mean Girls "If you have Sex you WILL GET PREGNANT and DIE"
Fun fact: More amendments went into place in the 1900s (12) than any other century (1700s: 11, 1800s: 4, 2000s: 0)
I'm surprised those people don't at least know about Prohibition if they're the types to throw around "liberal propaganda"
well I've never seen an Ammendment happen in my lifetime so obviously it doesn't happen
The 27th Amendment was ratified in 1992
1992 was 32 years ago. Adults are 18. People born in 2006 are adults.
2006
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck
You shut your damn mouth right now!
2006 was only 4 years ago, right? RIGHT?
Still though, the average age in the US is 38 so for most people, there was an amendment ratified during their lifetime.
Speaking for me personally, I would consider anything that happened in my parents generation to be a recent collective memory, at least until I get to the age my parents were when they had me. Sure I wasn't alive during the moon landing or JFK assassination, but they're still pretty recent events in the grand scheme of US history.
the average age in the US is 38
Damnit now there's something that I'm upset about being above average for.
We are trying our best to vote this bitch out here in TN.
I hate her so bad
Marsha Goddamned Motherfucking Blackburn.
Stopped us expanding Medicare. In the pocket of the telecom companies. And all around, general, piece of shit.
Gotta get rid of that 2nd Amendment then as well don't we?
Funny how the people who scream "you can't change the second amendment" seem to be perfectly OK with nationalizing Christianity...which would violate the first amendment
But I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
-Some stupid idiot who never read the Constitution, probably
You mean the US constitution wasn’t written by god and handed down by Jesus?
That's not Jesus. He's not brown enough.
We're going for American Jesus.
Need to timestamp that too. Native Americans weren't white. Then Columbus came, and he wasn't white. The Spanish/Portugese were here for what, 100 years before England. Really gotta ignore at least the first 75% of years after Mary got knocked up till now.
Columbus wasn't white? Wasn't he genoese?
Eh, a rewrite is not the same as an edit.
If I start talking about rewriting our code base, I'm not asking to fix a big or add a new feature, I'm saying we need to scrap everything we've got and start again.
According to the math he laid out in that document, it would be a longer period today to account for the increased life expectancy. At the time, it was only assumed that the average life expectancy was 55 years. Google says it is now about 78, so the suggestion for today's world would be to rewrite the Constitution every 31 years or so.
It makes sense. His logic is essentially that the Constitution is a contract that binds everyone in our society to a legal framework, but the rules were created for a specific time and people and binding future generations to the same rules would be the same as having a dead man continue to own all the property he aqcuired in life instead of having the ownership pass down to his descendants.
There is a person here on Lemmy that seriously believes if you turn the constitution upside down it magically turns into Latin and has secret messages.
So, yeah. Unfortunately I'm not surprised with this lady.
what, like, the original constitution? the original document? or just any random ass copy of it>
next you're going to tell me there's a hidden treasure map on the back of it
Oh shit there is!?
Err I mean ha-ha that's silly...
Brb
It needs to be called out just how weird it is that US Senators like this don’t understand the very document they have sworn to uphold.
The bar has been lowered so much that I wouldn't be surpised to learn that some of them couldn't even read.
At this point I'm almost for requiring at least some sort of legal degree for these positions.
a LOT of the people most important to governing within the constitution, enforcing it, and specifically hired to protect your rights granted by it, know little, to nothing, about it
I don't think that dumb bitch knows the difference between amend & rewrite
I don't think this dumb bitch knows that amending something can rewrite parts of it.