Yeah, let’s have a constitutional convention in this environment to update the entire Constitution, let’s see how quick the bill of rights gets tossed out for a complete police state and possibly a theocracy. The most fractious the country has ever been is a great time to remove and replace the foundation of a country. Or are you thinking more of a coup where only one political “side” makes the new constitution they want, and it just gets enforced on everybody else?
Since the entire union doesn’t work anymore and needs to be reworked from the ground up devaluing/depowering States, let’s be honest: there is no way the entire country re-forms whole under its existing borders. We will end up with at least 2 or 3 countries in what was once the contiguous 48.
I guess it’s been a while since there’s been a good civil war.
The better model would be that we become 50 independent countries bound by a common trade agreement. Maybe a common military made up of state militaries for the purposes of securing external borders, protecting global trade, and enforcing agreements between internal borders. Essentially, the EU.
I think one of the biggest problems with the constitution in its current state is the commerce clause superseding the 10th amendment. A new framework, based upon the constitution and a solid base of basic human rights, but with the idea that member states are autonomous but also cooperative allies.
You want to live in your medieval fundamentalist hellhole, by all means, but don’t enforce your beliefs on my secular progressive utopia.
Yeah, let’s have a constitutional convention in this environment to update the entire Constitution, let’s see how quick the bill of rights gets tossed out for a complete police state and possibly a theocracy. The most fractious the country has ever been is a great time to remove and replace the foundation of a country. Or are you thinking more of a coup where only one political “side” makes the new constitution they want, and it just gets enforced on everybody else?
Since the entire union doesn’t work anymore and needs to be reworked from the ground up devaluing/depowering States, let’s be honest: there is no way the entire country re-forms whole under its existing borders. We will end up with at least 2 or 3 countries in what was once the contiguous 48.
I guess it’s been a while since there’s been a good civil war.
The better model would be that we become 50 independent countries bound by a common trade agreement. Maybe a common military made up of state militaries for the purposes of securing external borders, protecting global trade, and enforcing agreements between internal borders. Essentially, the EU.
I think one of the biggest problems with the constitution in its current state is the commerce clause superseding the 10th amendment. A new framework, based upon the constitution and a solid base of basic human rights, but with the idea that member states are autonomous but also cooperative allies.
You want to live in your medieval fundamentalist hellhole, by all means, but don’t enforce your beliefs on my secular progressive utopia.