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NobleTeam360 said:
ofrm1 said:

No, the country has widespread corruption because the constitution has nothing to say on virtually all relevant matters, and we're forced to rely upon laws written post-facto, which don't even adhere to the original spirit of the constitution.

Jefferson believed the constitution should be re-written every 19 years. The average lifespan of a constitution is around 15 years. This is yet another area where the United States holds onto archaic practice and refuses to change for the better.

The United States Constitution was written at a time before repeating rifles were invented, before photographs or film existed, before electricity in homes, before the telegraph, before cars, before anything other than birds could fly, and before both cell and atomic theory. Why do you think this document has anything meaningful to say about life in a 21st century, first-world society?

I'd say the Bill of Rights shouldn't have to change no matter how far into the future we go. Sure new laws will be needed (that's obvious) but trampling over basic rights should never be acceptable. 

If you're talking about vague expressions of freedom, like freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, petition, etc. Then yes. However, those are expressions that everyone realizes in modern society. So what do you do when someone wants to buy a gun with a 100 round magazine? The constitution has nothing to say about it because it didn't exist when it was written. What do you do when someone wants to listen in on a phone call? Phones didn't exist then. I could go on and on. Having an old, archaic document that merely expresses basic freedoms does nothing to help the citizens of the nation because those freedoms don't mean anything if they aren't detailed and precise. The way to solve these problems is the same way that other countries with constitutions solves them; create a new draft of the constitution and ratify it. Instead of taking a 200 year-old quilt and constantly patching the holes which keep getting larger and larger, just make a whole new quilt and be done with it.

Also, it's not as if those expressions of freedom were new or original during the late 18th century. They're lifted almost wholesale from Hobbes, Locke, and to a lesser extent, Rousseau. So it's not as if these rights came from the framers to begin with.