I feel like people are so afraid of change that they follow the Constitution to a T. In my mind however, it is very similar to reading and following the Bible in every facet of your life. The Bible was written during very different times, there were no trains, planes, or automobiles. People lived off the land, there were markets, but nothing like what we have today. People only had each other, their families and close friends to fall back on, there was no social media. There was no such thing as a gun, only stones to throw at those that did wrong, or ropes to hang them. The Bible is an EXTREME, people were stoned for things as little as having sex out of wed-lock, or stealing. When you read the stories of the Bible, there are lessons to be learned from each one, but the Bible is not meant to be taken literally, it is a guide for how you should live your life; a moral compass if you will.
In my opinion, there are laws, rules that we must abide by as a country written into the Constitution, but mostly the document was written as a safeguard against any more tyranny. It gave people rights to things rather than your place in society deciding what you could and could not have, the king had no say any more. The Constitution has basic rights intertwined with moral grounds that we are to live our lives by. It is another form of a guideline, and should be followed as such. People have rights, the Constitution protects those rights, and as we evolve as a society, and the technological world as well as the physical world we live in changes, so must our Constitution. It does not need to be rewritten, but definitely should be amended as we change each and every second, minute, hour, day, month, and year as a society.
Change is a very hard thing for a human, we are set in our ways, and are used to doing the same things each and every day. We are creatures of habit, and only like changes that will allow us more freedom to do what we want, not restrict it. But that too, is the purpose of the Constitution, restriction. Limits on what we can and cannot or should and should not do. Is it Constitutional? That's a question we ask ourselves from time to time, but because we are used to living a certain way, it is not in the forefront of our minds. Maybe it should be, maybe we're fine as we are, but we as humans need rules, we need structure, and the Constitution helps provide that. It should definitely change and grow with us as a society as we change and grow, not just to expand our freedoms, but to restrict them as well.
Summary: The Constitution is a document that was created 200+ years ago. We have changed as a society, for better or worse, and the Constitution should change right along with us to keep us on the right path. It is a GUIDE for us as a society to do the right thing, and to move as one in the correct direction, and should be amended, not rewritten.
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