What would be an example of the country "imploding"
What would be an example of the country exploding ?
"Exploding" would be another civil war.
"Imploding" would be a mutual agreement to divide up the country so that one can live in a safe zone with people who share common cultural values.
Happy New Year!
Bur didn't the last attempt to "implode" and divide up the country not result in a civil war ?
I mostly agree with the first half and mostly disagree with the second half.
The "discovery" of the land that became America and the enslavement of Africans were based in racism. The Constitution solidified those because it didn't address those- at best it was by omission. So there was obviously structural racism.
No, the Constitution cannot change thoughts, but it can be changed. And part of the change can be changes to our laws.
We can also add to or change things like the Preamble and officially acknowledge, apologize, and say that we'll work hard to make amends.
And heads and hearts can be changed:
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Well, yes.
Because President Lincoln did not have the good sense to say "Best wishes to you Southerners. Hope that you will eventually decide to rejoin the Union."
Scholars say that slavery would have eventually died out because of technological advances and because England was leading the way to the abolition of slavery. There would have been a massive number of slaves escaping to the North, so plantation owners would have realized that they would have to start paying some wages.
Instead, what happened? Mr. Lincoln was responsible for a four-year slaughter that killed at least 800,000 young men and poisoned the relations between two ethnicities up to this very moment.
For starters, as stated in my comment you quoted: We can also add to or change things like the Preamble and officially acknowledge, apologize, and say that we'll work hard to make amends.EVERYTHING you are seeking Constitutionally seems to have already been delivered. ...
For starters, as stated in my comment you quoted: We can also add to or change things like the Preamble and officially acknowledge, apologize, and say that we'll work hard to make amends.
Postamble to follow.Could you give an example of what you propose ?
Postamble (rough draft 1.0):Preamble said:We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Postamble (rough draft 1.0):
We the People acknowledge that:
* The land that became the United States was inhabited by People and the results of colonization were not Just.
* Africans were People and their enslavement was not Just.
We sincerely apologize for these injustices. We will work to achieve Justice.
You are overreacting.That is beyond terrible, you could argue it means that Native American are justified in evicting the descendants of European settlers back to Europe
What does "not just" translate to ?
Was it unjust to evict the Dutch from "New Amsterdam"
Was the invasion of Canada in the war of 1812, unjust ?
The Constitution should look forward, not back. It should not be filled with retroactive, guilt ridden angst.
You are overreacting.
This covers the main issues related to the US Constitution.
"Not Just" is synonymous with unjust, injustice, immoral, unethical, wrong, etc.
Are we not still struggling with the fallout from these unresolved issues?
Additionally, the Republican Party is basically the South and the Democratic Party is basically the North.
An apology-plus in a Postamble is a stand-alone constitution?To the most reactive suggestion for a Constitution ever
More a note of apology than a Constitution
The US Constitution has three main sections: marketing, codification of federal government, and sales addendum.The main issues related to the Constitution is how the country will be run, not how it used to be run (or how badly that might have been).
An apology-plus in a Postamble is a stand-alone constitution?
The US Constitution has three main sections: marketing, codification of federal government, and sales addendum.
For starters, as stated in my comment you quoted: We can also add to or change things like the Preamble and officially acknowledge, apologize, and say that we'll work hard to make amends.
From #103:What are the amends you desire be made and by whom to whom?
What is the change you seem to want to see made in the preamble?
What are the amends you desire be made and by whom to whom?
What is the change you seem to want to see made in the preamble?
From #103:
Postamble (rough draft 1.0):
We the People acknowledge that:
* The land that became the United States was inhabited by People and the results of colonization were not Just.
* Africans were People and their enslavement was not Just.
We sincerely apologize for these injustices. We will work to achieve Justice.
I got about halfway through your screed.With the greatest respect [chuckle], what you wrote here is about as stupid as anything I've ever read anywhere.
I have an interest in the methodologies employed to victimize the students processed by our public Schools.
Were you matriculated recently?
Again, with the greatest respect, the PREAMBLE precedes the actual body of the Constitution which is simply the framework by which the Framers hoped to LIMIT the power of the Federal Government and structure its branches.
It was written as an introduction, perhaps a mission statement is more accurate, and seems to describe some pretty lofty aspirations. None of those aspirations conflict with your brain washed idiocy above.
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It's all indicating a breakdown of the US system and the US Constitution has no way of dealing with the issue.
Of necessity to hold the union together, the US Constitution was devised and written to appease all of the individual states/ parties. It's quite likely that made it incapable of dealing with racism in a sure and final way.
Other countries lost their right to hold slaves and were able to deal with the issue more thoroughly. America didn't put the matter to bed and now it's stuck with the problem in the 21st. century, where demands of humanity are calling for the issue to be rectified. And America seems to be resisting coming to an answer.
Hence, the tyranny of the Trump regime that has rode the issue into the WH, to his advantage.
Can the US Constitution save the country? Is it equipped with the necessary means to stop an authoritarian who is intent of fascist rule? Or will some other mechanism need to deal with the problem?
I got about halfway through your screed.
You're too intelligent for me.No surprise. Logic and the ability to understand English both seem elusive for you.
You're too intelligent for me.
You're too intelligent for me.
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