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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (763777)	7/24/2007 12:49:22 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "Well if we didn't have a senate we wouldn't have the United states. The small states wouldn't join. Why should they" Possibly. But this truism is also brought to mind: ANY organism (political or otherwise) that cannot adapt, cannot reform, will ultimately die. Our Constitution includes three different suggested methods for amending it... and our forefathers thought that the constitution was only a work-in-progress, that would have to be adapted as time passed. And, often they were not expecting minor, gradual little changes, but rather BIG ONES. Jefferson was not the only one who thought that a 'revolution' would be necessary at least every generation, to keep our system honest and functioning properly, and our nation on the right path to preserve individual's freedoms. Their particular genius was in providing the people so many usable methods for reforming our nation --- in the hope that we would use these methods to adapt the governmental system --- so we wouldn't have to resort to armed revolutions 'every generation or so'.... I repeat: political power disparities such as are enshrined by the 'big state / small state' divide only WEAKEN our country. Failure to effect needed reforms (through the constitutional amendment process... among others), such as a balanced budget amendment weaken us even more. Any organism that cannot adapt to changing circumstances, dies.