• xkforce@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Treating the constitution as if it cant be changed because it is “perfect” is wildly different than not wanting the government to boundary test how it can skirt the constitution to get what it wants. When the US government doesnt follow the rules that it was supposed to be bound to via the constitution, it is almost never a good thing.

    The constitution set rules for how to change it legitimately. It was designed to be changed over time not flagrently ignored.

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      1 year ago

      That’s the problem, it cannot be changed anymore, the base problems with the system itself prevents it from doing so.

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        1 year ago

        Sounds like you have an issue with these “base problems”, not the Constitution itself

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      The constitution was designed to be vaguely descriptive, so that in the case that society does change, then statements can be interpreted in a way that supports the new view of the modern country.

      For instance, while not in the constitution, the government set up no offical state language or religion, in the case that society had changed making what they said redundant.