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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.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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