Is the U.S. Constitution still relevant today as when it was first instituted?
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2012/07/31 12:13:52
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I believe its even more relevant today then it ever was. There are many that say our Constitution is old fashion and out dated. We have improved our lives dramatically and no longer live under the living conditions our forefathers once did. The greatness of the U.S. Constitution was made to evolve so much as we evolve on the sense of technology and living conditions. It was written to protect man from himself. We as human beings haven't change much in our wicked ways....Therefore the Constitution will never be out dated as long as man remain the same.
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bodaishinboy 2012/08/01 03:45:53Yes, it is relevant.




















The Constitution, I feel, is still very relevant today. It may even be more than before. I don’t see how you can make any sort of an argument against that statement. The Constitution is how we still interpret laws today. It has withstood the test of time and has served our country greatly for this long, and I think it will continue to do a great job till the zombies come. After that we will descend into anarchy and it will no longer be relevant. Small bands of uninfected people will form their own governments.
The framers of the Constitution were brilliant people in my mind, because they i...
The Constitution, I feel, is still very relevant today. It may even be more than before. I don’t see how you can make any sort of an argument against that statement. The Constitution is how we still interpret laws today. It has withstood the test of time and has served our country greatly for this long, and I think it will continue to do a great job till the zombies come. After that we will descend into anarchy and it will no longer be relevant. Small bands of uninfected people will form their own governments.
The framers of the Constitution were brilliant people in my mind, because they intentionally left it vague to allow it to change with the times. As the times changed the system of judicial review would have its way of interpreting it. The Supreme Court mostly are the people who deal with interpreting the Constitution, and using it in court cases. The separation of powers allows a balance so the Supreme Court can’t be unreasonable in their decisions.
The Constitution is such a powerful document, that other countries have made similar documents. Benito Juarez in Mexico, Jose Rizal in the Philippines, and Sun Yat-sen in China have all model their freedoms around that which is in the constitution.
A constitution should be something open to interpretation. Not a single person that was sitting in the room when this was being written knew what life was going to be like in 2012. That’s why they did not make the constitution very specific. These are some extremely smart and influential people in American history we are talking about, and the fact that they were able to write such an amazing document that has last all this time is just unbelievable.
If grown people who have never followed the law (not got circumcised) have a problem with the Constitution they can shut up and move to China...
Of course the Constitution is old-fashioned. Federal government establishing a post office and post roads? Pfft.
The thing is, we need a constitution to clearly circumscribe the functions of government. To completely ignore the Constitution or treat it as "negotiable" or "a living document" is to have unlimited government, which is a recipe for tyranny. There is a procedure to amend the Constitution, and we need to think about using it, rather than just making crap up or using the general welfare or commerce clauses to say the federal government can do whatever the hell it wants. This is pretty much what has happened, unfortunately - most politicians in both parties treat their oaths of office as mere formalities and scarcely see the Constitution as anything other than something to turn to to complain only about unconstitutional bills they don't agree with while ignoring the planks in their own eyes.
We have freedom of speech to tell this Government "NO" when they want to do something that is dangerous to our nation or does not make sense and impractical and even foolish like in this Government,
We have the freedom to vote as we choose our Government and correct our mistakes in judgement of past elections where we believed change was good, yet got a different breed of "clueless government knows best" as they wrote 2700 pages of healthcare to be backed by over 200,000 pages of regulation of which some violates other rights.
We also have the freedom to replace a government that spends a billion futures of people around the world by shaking hands with the radicals of religion who only views the United States and a free meal ticket. They can hardly wait until they can overthrow this once honored government and nation and force the world to take a giant step "Foreward" back into the dark ages and under the thumbs of monarchs who we can not vote out of office.
Whether or not you fully ag...
We have freedom of speech to tell this Government "NO" when they want to do something that is dangerous to our nation or does not make sense and impractical and even foolish like in this Government,
We have the freedom to vote as we choose our Government and correct our mistakes in judgement of past elections where we believed change was good, yet got a different breed of "clueless government knows best" as they wrote 2700 pages of healthcare to be backed by over 200,000 pages of regulation of which some violates other rights.
We also have the freedom to replace a government that spends a billion futures of people around the world by shaking hands with the radicals of religion who only views the United States and a free meal ticket. They can hardly wait until they can overthrow this once honored government and nation and force the world to take a giant step "Foreward" back into the dark ages and under the thumbs of monarchs who we can not vote out of office.
Whether or not you fully agree with its contents and protections, we have 50 days remaining to decide if keep and Constitution to limit it adverse impact on our lives and the free nations around the world. If we go further this government will have gone too far to save it or bail out the people who have been fleeced into the corrupt "Hope and Change" which has 'fundamentally changed this country" for the far, far worst!
It is corrupt and so very different. Although I do love America, I wish we would revert back to which we came.
Am I free to drink if I'm under 21?
Am I free to smoke pot if I want?
Am I free to fly on a plane without being searched?
Am I free to not a buy a service that I don't want?
Am I free to marry who I want to?
Am I free to keep the wages that I earned?
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
Not Anger just conviction.
Well I'm younger than 65 but old enough to know what I'm talking about. The American revolution wasn't about classes. It was about an unfair taxes.
Thank you come again.
Not sure if I agree with that one. Good people are ignored regularly while the bad ones garner the most attention. Just watch the evening news.