I agree with you Mary Pat. Using the idea of nation rebuilding as a foundation, I wrote a paper in 2015 in favor of reestablishing the values base for the nation, suggesting we needed to come together with a contemporary and more dynamic constitution. I thought it a healthy exercise in pursuit of ensuring the democracy we professed to lo…
I agree with you Mary Pat. Using the idea of nation rebuilding as a foundation, I wrote a paper in 2015 in favor of reestablishing the values base for the nation, suggesting we needed to come together with a contemporary and more dynamic constitution. I thought it a healthy exercise in pursuit of ensuring the democracy we professed to love. I shared it with five people I respected. It died the appropriate death it deserved. That experience reminded me of the Baptist fault that fits in this train of thought about convening a constitutional convention. If we can't get unanimity in ideology, start over, build a new church, and work the slow path to where ideological differences divide, rather than unite. The hard work is adjusting to differences, to make progress, not to create the most perfect and unchangeable way to live together is the productive direction for our messy nation. HCR certainly makes clear that opening up a convention to update the Constitutional would prove as ill-advised as did that which occurred in 1787; the damned compromises we now live with. Amend, yes, and recognize that our constitution is not divine scripture, but the product of it's time, brilliant though the idea is that all men are created equal and equal under the laws of a just nation.
I agree with you Mary Pat. Using the idea of nation rebuilding as a foundation, I wrote a paper in 2015 in favor of reestablishing the values base for the nation, suggesting we needed to come together with a contemporary and more dynamic constitution. I thought it a healthy exercise in pursuit of ensuring the democracy we professed to love. I shared it with five people I respected. It died the appropriate death it deserved. That experience reminded me of the Baptist fault that fits in this train of thought about convening a constitutional convention. If we can't get unanimity in ideology, start over, build a new church, and work the slow path to where ideological differences divide, rather than unite. The hard work is adjusting to differences, to make progress, not to create the most perfect and unchangeable way to live together is the productive direction for our messy nation. HCR certainly makes clear that opening up a convention to update the Constitutional would prove as ill-advised as did that which occurred in 1787; the damned compromises we now live with. Amend, yes, and recognize that our constitution is not divine scripture, but the product of it's time, brilliant though the idea is that all men are created equal and equal under the laws of a just nation.