Sunday, September 22, 2013
What the Founders Intended
It irks me to no end to hear our Representatives and Senators go on and on about what the founders of our nation meant when they wrote our Constitution. It would seem the answer would be plain enough: The founders intended this nation and its Constitution to live and grow with the changing times. They had no intention of any founding documents to be static and unchanging; indeed they provided for the means to change them in the first place! Our system, however, has become so bogged down with the trappings of the founders' intentions that they have created a stale Constitution with innumerable laws and bureaucracy binding it to a point that the United States is choking on the vomit of its own lawmakers and the judiciary that interprets these laws (their interpretations, by the way, change with which party is currently in power). Yet even these the founders foresaw in incorporating into our Constitution a way for the people to change the very nature of the entire system. This way is the Constitutional Convention. Our last and only one was with the Articles of Confederation. It was then that we realized the utter uselessness of the current Confederation and drafted the Constitution we have today. This, of course, forces one to wonder if it is time to call another convention and bring this stale system a breath of fresh air. I have posted a poll on this subject and would love to discuss this option. Please vote.
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