• Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I know fully grown adults who think the constitution has never been altered, the ammendments were always there and “just what the founding fathers worked on after signing it and sending it to king George”, and that any talk about congress changing things after the fact is just 'liberal propaganda" and at least one person, when asked why they think that, responded with “well I’ve never seen an Ammendment happen in my lifetime so obviously it doesn’t happen.”

    Several of these adults are related, so I can see why multiple people in the same family might hold that belief, but the fact that I know MORE THAN ONE is insane to me.

    I went to school in a non-religious school that was very much a religious area. Sex Ed was basically the scene in Mean Girls “If you have Sex you WILL GET PREGNANT and DIE”

    • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Fun fact: More amendments went into place in the 1900s (12) than any other century (1700s: 11, 1800s: 4, 2000s: 0)

      I’m surprised those people don’t at least know about Prohibition if they’re the types to throw around “liberal propaganda”

    • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      well I’ve never seen an Ammendment happen in my lifetime so obviously it doesn’t happen

      The 27th Amendment was ratified in 1992

        • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          2 months ago

          2006 was only 4 years ago, right? RIGHT?

          Still though, the average age in the US is 38 so for most people, there was an amendment ratified during their lifetime.

          Speaking for me personally, I would consider anything that happened in my parents generation to be a recent collective memory, at least until I get to the age my parents were when they had me. Sure I wasn’t alive during the moon landing or JFK assassination, but they’re still pretty recent events in the grand scheme of US history.

          • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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            2 months ago

            the average age in the US is 38

            Damnit now there’s something that I’m upset about being above average for.

    • huf [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      it’s not a political document, it’s a holy text. you wouldnt alter the torah either, would you? :D

  • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Funny how the people who scream “you can’t change the second amendment” seem to be perfectly OK with nationalizing Christianity…which would violate the first amendment

  • NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    But I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

    -Some stupid idiot who never read the Constitution, probably

  • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It needs to be called out just how weird it is that US Senators like this don’t understand the very document they have sworn to uphold.

    • EndOfLine@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The bar has been lowered so much that I wouldn’t be surpised to learn that some of them couldn’t even read.

    • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      a LOT of the people most important to governing within the constitution, enforcing it, and specifically hired to protect your rights granted by it, know little, to nothing, about it

    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      At this point I’m almost for requiring at least some sort of legal degree for these positions.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    There is a person here on Lemmy that seriously believes if you turn the constitution upside down it magically turns into Latin and has secret messages.

    So, yeah. Unfortunately I’m not surprised with this lady.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Eh, a rewrite is not the same as an edit.

    If I start talking about rewriting our code base, I’m not asking to fix a big or add a new feature, I’m saying we need to scrap everything we’ve got and start again.

      • shastaxc@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        According to the math he laid out in that document, it would be a longer period today to account for the increased life expectancy. At the time, it was only assumed that the average life expectancy was 55 years. Google says it is now about 78, so the suggestion for today’s world would be to rewrite the Constitution every 31 years or so.

        It makes sense. His logic is essentially that the Constitution is a contract that binds everyone in our society to a legal framework, but the rules were created for a specific time and people and binding future generations to the same rules would be the same as having a dead man continue to own all the property he aqcuired in life instead of having the ownership pass down to his descendants.