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Originally Posted by soopaman2
Silly. I take nothing partisan from this, it only affirms my belief of the firm need for a constitutional convention, and a purge of the house and congress.
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Seriously? Have you considered what that would entail? The original only came about because men of wisdom fought and bickered and compromised. At the Virginia ratification discussions Patrick Henry said there should be a new convention then, and a Bill Of Rights should be placed withing the document itself. Fortunately he was not heard, mainly because they weren't sure a second convention wouldn't create an entirely new Constitution that would be much worse.
If a new Constitutional Convention were to be called (and thank whatever powers you pray to that they made it so difficult) there is no rule that it would have to do what you want, and every chance that the things you believe in would be ignored. They would have carte blanc to create whatevery they wanted. What if it came up with a new Constitution that truly made America a socialist state? What if it took away all our rights? What if it went in the opposite direction, and guaranteed all rights but totally eliminated all Federal interference, for better or for worse? First off, at least two-thirds of the States would have to ratify it (unless of course it did away with the States entirely, as some have suggested in the past), and that in itself seems highly unlikely.
So let me ask this: If you had the power to rewrite the Constitution as you say, what exactly would you change? How would you make it better?