Takra

There should always be time for constitutional debate :) But Sith`s first post was almost perfect explanation of what`s happening. Add to that media outlets with political agenda and social media giving platform to insignificant people with baseless opinions. Then you have the whole picture. have no pics right now, hopefully some else finds one!

The constitution itself is very basic document laying out Federal government and its three branches: Legislative, executive and judicial. It was made quite simple as the forefathers feared that states wouldn`t sign more detailed version. So all the freedoms and rights of individuals are ordained by amendments, which of course can be amended again. Some of them are important, securing rights of citizens, some of them fine tune government, some of them are obsolete. (18th enacted the prohibition and 21st repealed it.) But some of them have obscure wording, and here lies the problem. Scholars have debated at least about 2nd, 9th and 14th amendments since they were drawn and noone has definite answer. And as the Supreme court interpretes the law, it can change citizens rights by it`s decisions. This should be done by congress as the SC should have no such power. All in all, it`s not great constitution nor is it bad. It only has outdated wording and it was written for a considerably smaller country. If it was a brilliant one the states couldn`t act against it so blatantly. The pledge of allegiance has unconstitutional parts, book bans are unconstitutional and the rights of the LGBTQ+ community should be covered by the 14th amendment. (With all the other amendments.) But everyone thought this about abortion also. Badly written amendments give false sense of safety. Biggest problem is the same as everywhere, when people think of constitutional rights they think about THEIR rights, not the rights of their fellow citizens. When this changes, the constitution doesn`t play as big part as it does now.