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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (48912)	4/16/2005 10:41:30 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

It should be very difficult to mess with the constitution. Next to impossible would be good.

To: sandintoes who wrote (48912)	4/17/2005 3:19:19 AM
From: Rick	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

Just about all the constitution writers working anywhere in the world after 1790 started off believing they could easily improve on the American one. After all, "we'll just fix-up the parts that are obviously wrong" is a common enough approach. Some countries have had over a dozen constitutions, which I'm sure all looked better than ours. For example, just think of the old Soviet Stalinist constitution. It had all sorts of rights listed in black and white. Of course, the only reason Stalin supported it was that he knew none of it mattered a fig. Writing a constitution is easy. Writing a good one that people actually follow, or even want to follow, is next to impossible. Have you taken a look at the proposed EU constitution? I tried to read it but gave up. It is the most Rube Goldberg-like thing I've ever seen. It goes on and on about who staffs what committee, and who reports to who. But I didn't actually see any citizen's rights listed or limits on the government. I hope they were there somewhere. - Rick