Is it time America writes a new Constitution?

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Marks said:

Insidb said:
Fun facts:

When the Constitution was written, there was no:
1) Automobile
2) Computer
3) Republican/Democratic Party
4) X-Ray/MRI
5) Electric Power
6) Telephone
7) IRS/Federal Reserve
8) Internal Medicine
9) Airplane
10) Pledge of Allegiance
11) Television
12) Internet
13) Abolition/CRA
14) Women's Suffrage

In hindsight, treating a document that was written 230 years ago as sacrosanct seems like a great idea!

So what changed lol? Almost all of them are still relevant today, there's the odd one like the 3rd (quartering soldiers in your home) that are no longer used but the 1st, 2nd, 4th-8th, 10th (goes unnoticed and gets ignored apparently), etc. are still hugely important. And btw there's no asterisk with restrictions on the 2nd...it wasn't specifically for hunting or personal defence...it was so you could overthrow corrupt governments. Fuck I think anyone with no criminal record or major mental health issue should be allowed an AK-47 if he so chooses. 

 

What does the internet, television, automobiles, computers, automatic weapons, etc have to do with basic ideological principles regarding individual liberty and limits on government power where individual rights take precedence over government and the then revolutionary idea that it is government that should be restricted, and not the people, with a Constitution explicitly stating what government can do instead of the other way around?

The idea that liberty of the individual is sacred and absolute and already exists naturally, and that government does not exist to grant liberty but instead to protect it, ironically from the very government itself first and foremost, transcends all time and space and is not influenced by technology or human progress.

Freedom of speech and press for example wasn't limited to just speaking or pens only but not printing presses.  It made no mention of the means at all. It is far less tangible and wider scope than that the technological means available at any given point in time be it a pen or the internet.

Right to bear arms = "every terrible implement of the soldier", for governed citizens to have parity (vgchartz loves this word) and deterence with any standing army or government force that could some day be used against the people, not just "duck hunting shotguns".  It's about government not having monopoly on deadly force or the most efficient means to wield it, and again this is an idea that needs not specify any particular technology or era.

etc.

The majority of real flaws (slavery and womens rights) have already long been formally fixed.