Is the Constitution outdated? (edit: RIP)

[thekingsmen]

But the Constitution hasn't been frequently updated. By definition, that makes it outdated.

There are dozens of laws on the books from the early 1900s from states..fix those if you care.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

LOL @ the "edit"

Spoiler

 

[tru_m.a.c]

you have a point.

 

[wtfyomom]

yes but more importantly its overated. i say this as an atheist but you can get my point, its treated as if its the bible. like oh a document a bunch of white slave owners wrote. we should worship this piece of paper written by scumbags.

 

[wtfyomom]

the electoral college and the senate need to go, they make no sense, its trying to find a way to make the person with less votes win, everyone is so worried west bumble fukk wont be represented but have no issue with NY, cali, texas, etc all the most populated areas not deciding anything. its ass backwards logic. so many things in america would NEVER fly in most other first world countries. like who cares about london, lets let some village with 100 people decide the election. even customary units like what is this measurement system that only we used and is based on nothing while everyone else uses a logical system based on 10s.

 

[FAH1223]

UPPPIN

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

the electoral college and the senate need to go, they make no sense, its trying to find a way to make the person with less votes win, everyone is so worried west bumble fukk wont be represented but have no issue with NY, cali, texas, etc all the most populated areas not deciding anything. its ass backwards logic. so many things in america would NEVER fly in most other first world countries. like who cares about london, lets let some village with 100 people decide the election. even customary units like what is this measurement system that only we used and is based on nothing while everyone else uses a logical system based on 10s.

This is why our country is crumbling. Those two, the senate and EC are designed to overrule the will of the public. Either our democracy dies or the senate and EC have to cease to exist. The two are no longer compatible and we aren’t getting through another election with the present system intact are at least with any integrity.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

The major problem with redesigning American law is that like 30% of the population believe in every insane conspiracy theory. We'd have fistfights in neo-congress over keeping gold fringe off the flag so the lizard queen can't use maritime law to give our guns to transgender clones.

We'd have to shut those idiots out of the process.

Which they'd never accept, so basically we just need to break up.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

The major problem with redesigning American law is that like 30% of the population believe in every insane conspiracy theory. We'd have fistfights in neo-congress over keeping gold fringe off the flag so the lizard queen can't use maritime law to give our guns to transgender clones.

We'd have to shut those idiots out of the process.

Which they'd never accept, so basically we just need to break up.

The biggest mistake in American history was not hanging all the confederate leaders and letting those states have representatives in government after the war. They should’ve been treated like occupied territories for at least the next century with no governing voice and union soldiers policing every facet of their society by force. By letting them live and just move on like a 4 year war over slavery that killed half a million people was just a heated argument, we basically let them win the war. Now they’ve poisoned society to the point that government can’t function.

The nation splintering into multiple countries is the only viable choice I see going forward. The northeast (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, & New England) and the west coast should each form their own nations. Each of those regions have over 50 million people, which is plenty. Let the former confederacy and the other flyover welfare states have it’s white supremacist dictatorship without those states to bail out the economy and industry. Within 5-10 years, they’d completely collapse. We can’t afford to let a gangrenous finger infect the whole body. It’s already gotten the entire hand and much of the arm.

 

[How Sway?]

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Think you hunting rifle is a match for a drone brehs

 

[mastermind]

This is a question thats been on my mind recently, and though it is because of Trump it actually isnt related to him.

• The terms in office can lead to dramatic changes in policy
• Elections being every 2 years lead to more populist policy instead of stable policy
• Executive Orders can potentially undue legislations
• Age limit to be an elected official
• The difficulty in amending the constituion

I don't know, I just ask. What do you all think?

I really should have added the disproportionate power of the US Senate.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

now that i read this thread, is there a case for smaller federal government (legislation) and more states rights? it will lead to a period of migration IMO as people shift to states that reflect their beliefs and positions, but maybe that's a good thing...