• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I think they can’t because their constitution is a holy text from the heavens and therefore cannot be trashed (or archived) and rewritten from scratch.

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      1 hour ago

      It literally has amendments. The latest one was ratified in 1992. The founding fathers considered the constitution to be a living document, hence why there is an amendment process.

      Ironically, the people treating the constitution like gospel are the same people that keep ignoring it.

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        9 minutes ago

        The same founding fathers that apparently thought it was a document that would probably be replaced after a few decades? (Or is this something everyone says that has no basis in reality? )

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        It’s the thing conservatives do. They just say stuff for effect and don’t care about truth or consistency.

        The Constitution is a perfect document that must be upheld when it suits their goals, and a living document that must be updated when that suits their goals instead. They are liars. They should not be accepted in polite society.