If your constitution proves to be ill-designed to the point of not allowing citizens to keep their homes during a crisis, or, as the case may soon be, not allowing actions from the government that will save tens of thousands of lives...isn't it time to give the whole thing a once over, see what assumptions from 200+ years ago don't hold much water today, and give the whole thing a rewrite?
Amazingly, you wouldn't even need a coup to do this, which is a testament to the framers sense.
But they seem to have left behind a bunch of people who'd rather use the Constitution as some sort of untouchable religious book you claim adherence to to score political points.
Can't imagine why you're suddenly shocked at insane tricks administrations have to pull to get things done. This isn't new, is it? Sclerosis has been building and building. And it'll continue to build, unless you change some things as a nation.
And the articles of confederation had rules on how to amend it and abandon it, and the people who did the constitutional convention ignored the rules, one of which was unanimous consent for any amendment to change the Articles or accept a new government structure such as the Constitution. Thus we get a situation where 9 states ratified it, then 11 states ratified it, then Congress was considering to add Kentucky as a state, then the electoral college votes for George Washington with 10 states certifying presidential electors (New York did not make the deadline), then 12 article amendments were considered and articles 3 to 12 became the bill of rights... business of the country was being done against the law and the rules.
A year and 3 months after the 9 state threshold North Carolina ratified becoming the 12th state, the Supreme Court is seated and hearing cases, 23 months after the threshold of 9 states Rhode Island ratified as the 13th state with a vote of 51% for and 48% against.
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There are dozens of other examples but I am doing trivia on how they, the founders, did not obey the rules with the literal founding. Washington was president for over a year before Rhode Island finished.
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- 10/08/2021 08:50:06 PM
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