Is it time?
The cover of this week's Time refers to an article by Richard Stengel titled "Does It Still Matter?". Very significantly the first page of Mr Stengel's article lists 14 things that are essential parts of our daily lives which the framers of the Constitution did not know about or could not have imagined, like DNA and Television. And there are literally thousands of others that are so foreign to their daily lives that are accepted as part of ours. How about assault rifles, spacecraft, lasers, subatomic particles, or a global economy?
Is it time to update the Constitution to make it more relevant to current events? It is often asked, what would the "founding fathers" think about .......? Does it really matter what a group of wealthy, white males gathered together in 1789 might think about abortion? In their original document women were not even granted the right to vote. What is so magical about their thoughts about current issues? Were they smarter than today's citizens? I don't think so and I invite others to express their thoughts, pro and con, here.
Is it time to update the Constitution to make it more relevant to current events? It is often asked, what would the "founding fathers" think about .......? Does it really matter what a group of wealthy, white males gathered together in 1789 might think about abortion? In their original document women were not even granted the right to vote. What is so magical about their thoughts about current issues? Were they smarter than today's citizens? I don't think so and I invite others to express their thoughts, pro and con, here.
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