Luis Michael Seidman, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University, wrote an op-ed for the New York Times on the last day of 2012 suggesting it was time for the U.S. Constitution to go.
In his op-ed, Sneidman blames the U.S. Constitution for many of our present day problems.
"As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken. But almost no one blames the culprit; our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions," Seidman wrote.
The Constitution, however, set up a way to make changes — through the amendment process. Following the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School late last year, however, the Second Amendment is one that has come sharply into focus as gun control is hotly debated.
What do you think? Is it time for the U.S. to consider a new constitution in keeping with more current issues — or would that defeat the whole purpose of exactly why the U.S. Constitution was set up in the first place?
You worry about assault rifles and high murder rates as a basis for changing our Constitution. Why do you ignore that 50% of the murders committed in this country are perpetrated by a certain 12.9% of our population? The biggest tragedy in this being that 90% of this group's victims are within the very same 12.9%. Though an unpopular subject, it still seems like a much bigger problem. If the 12.9% group only committed 12.9% of the murders, there would be an instant drop of nearly 30% in murders in the US. As far as "new discoveries" go, yes, we had no assault rifles in those times but, then again, the bad guys didn't have them either. You are very naive for a man of your years.
The Consititution is just about perfect. It accounts for the inherent problems with people and a large government. Democracy is not ideal, and we were not set up that way. In fact, we've gotten too democratic as it is. The Constitution is set up to limit government, and government's influence in our lives. It says very little about what the Federal government can do, but a lot about what states can do, and even includes the admonishment about if something is not specifically granted to the federal government, then that right belongs to the states, or the people. The Constitution is only outdated and needs to be updated for those that love government, and the bigger the better. The opportunity to meddle more and more in our lives, restrict our freedoms, and try to take care of us. In other words, make us dependant on government, thereby growing the government even more. We're already almost there, what with roughly 47% of the country paying no income taxes. Once that number increases over 51%, our country is lost. And that number is increasing in spite of our Constitution, not with the help of it.
The rest of us can kind of see where the failures came from, and pinpoint, usually, the government program that caused the failure in the first place.....
Seidman is an over-"educated" dolt.
So many experts, so little time, engaging in an exercise in futility. The Constitution is not going to be replaced. It would be nearly impossible to even amend it for any reason, taking years, decades maybe.