What amendment to the US Constitution would you add? This is my question for next YouTube "candidate presidential debate" but it can be answered by anyone. Especially by the folks here.
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:03 am Post subject:
1) I don't think you ought to encourage more amendments to "help" the "average American." The average American doesn't need help, he just needs to be left the fuck alone.
I wouldn't give it a number
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:15 am Post subject:
I think "how would it help America" rather than "how would it help the average American" might be preferable phrasing. I like the question though. _________________ everything is changing
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the time - like slow-motion
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:28 am Post subject:
transientangent wrote:
I think "how would it help America" rather than "how would it help the average American" might be preferable phrasing. I like the question though.
Thanks. I thought about phrasing that way. I decided against it because I felt America as a concept is awfully abstract and prone to cliché responses. Amendments are more about the effect on people or groups.
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:41 am Post subject:
Castaa wrote:
transientangent wrote:
I think "how would it help America" rather than "how would it help the average American" might be preferable phrasing. I like the question though.
Thanks. I thought about phrasing that way. I decided against it because I felt America as a concept is awfully abstract and prone to cliché responses. Amendments are more about the effect on people or groups.
You raise an interesting point. But should amendments necessarily help the average American? It's the bill of rights after all that protects the minority from exploitation by the majority, the average.
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:44 am Post subject:
The "anti-moron" amendment. Anyone convicted of doing something absolutely moronic (Like robbing a store while a cop's in it) more than three times will have "MORON" tattooed onto their forehead. _________________ I'm not insane, at least that's what the voices in my head tell me.
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:09 am Post subject:
Thou shall honor and obey the Constitution if an office holder, and those who betray the Constitution shall be put to death in a public and painful manner. _________________ Kimberly (HSBUH) aka
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:03 am Post subject:
Dr. Sabato was recently on Book TV pimping this book and it looks interesting.
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:44 am Post subject:
How about:
The "commerce clause" of the Constitution shall be applied only to the act of trading between states and not to what happens to goods such as are traded in this manner after their exchange from state to state is completed. _________________ "There is too little love in the world to devote any of it to an imaginary being."-Nietzsche
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:34 pm Post subject:
Amendment Proposal
Section 1.
In the event of a deficit to the budget of the United States, the President, the Vice President, the members of the Senate, and the members of the House of Representatives shall be individually, collectively, and severally responsible to pay the deficit.
Section 2.
All expenditures and revenues shall be included in the budget.
Section 3.
Refusal to pay by any of the named individuals shall cause that individual to forfeit their office and any other office or position of trust within the government of the United States until restitution is made. _________________ Nos laetus edo qui votum opprimo nobis.
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject:
Hell, nobody's commented on my proposal, which I think would empty the government within one year. _________________ Nos laetus edo qui votum opprimo nobis.
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:10 am Post subject:
Jason_Harvestdancer wrote:
Hell, nobody's commented on my proposal, which I think would empty the government within one year.
I like your proposal, but how about adding in a section about completely abolishing the executive branch? _________________ "-- Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than
feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to
be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it
is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be
dispensed with."-- Niccolò Machiavelli
I would say we definitely need some kind of amendment to further limit government...I'm a republican.....but under the Bush administration the power of government increased 13%...that's not what he said he was going to do....if we want to keep our freedom...we need to protect ourselves from socialism.
Also we need to make an amendment that brings government back to what it was meant to be...being that the legislative branch makes the laws, the judicial branch interprets the law, and the executive branch enforces it....today we've got all three branches making laws...what happened to the balance of power...?
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:12 am Post subject:
UnderGrace wrote:
...what happened to the balance of power...?
The executive branch happend. _________________ "-- Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than
feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to
be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it
is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be
dispensed with."-- Niccolò Machiavelli
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