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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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On 11/5/2024 8:47 AM, Zen Cycle wrote:
> On 11/5/2024 9:32 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>> On 11/4/2024 9:05 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>> On 11/4/2024 7:07 PM, Shadow wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     "But it's in the Constitution" - just saying that 
>>>> lowers the
>>>> score. The World has changed a LOT in over 100 years, 
>>>> and laws need to
>>>> change to accompany that.
>>>
>>> I occasionally encounter people who treat the U.S. 
>>> Constitution as perfection itself, and as a holy document 
>>> That Must Never Be Criticized.
>>>
>>> But despite its revisions (AKA amendments) I think it's 
>>> got serious flaws. As evidence, there are now hundreds of 
>>> nations with constitutions. Not one has duplicated the 
>>> U.S. Constitution. All have at least attempted to improve 
>>> on it.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> With mixed success. I give you the overwhelmingly adopted 
>> 18th Amendment, the only one more destructive than the 17th.
>>
>> Change for its own sake is not always positive.
>>
> 
> An amendment defining the structure of the senate is the 2nd 
> most destructive?
> 
> 
> 

It removed the State legislatures from the process. That's a 
big change, as reflected by candidates' positions and 
campaign strategies and of course who is elected.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971