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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (786870)5/30/2014 2:15:02 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1577043
 
>> Whether it was or wasn't, it became an important issue for the South and conservatives.

So was Jefferson a conservative or a liberal?

What about John Brown?

I think most early settlers of this country were conservative in their thinking.

>> In reality it was written by primitives much like the bible and needs to be updated from time to time.

Fine, there are very specific methods by which it is to be updated. You just need to get busy.

No worries. We are.

>> Except all the major complaints about the Constitution and its updates come from the right

That isn't true. Liberals have complained about the Citizens United decision, one which is clearly based on the Constitutional premise of Free Speech. Liberals have raised hell about Heller, a decision that was directly out of the 2nd Amendment.

Citizens United makes corps equal to citizens........its a direct threat to this democracy. Its not ideological........its changing the meaning of a democracy. Any person who believes in the democratic form of gov't should feel threatened by this latest interpretation of the USSC.

Liberals, like conservatives, want the Constitution to be whatever their beliefs are. The Constitution was designed to accommodate change but to avoid the whims of a fickle popular opinion.

Honestly, given the inferior leadership we have today, I cannot imagine why anyone would want to tinker with it at this point in time.

I agree with you there.........but then I think leadership is never up to the standards people believe they want. And whose fault is that?
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