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[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

BY is the king of out of context.

Watching him grapple with ideas is like watching a two year old having a tantrum and trying to smash the square brick into the round hole.

[Heracles 417]

C: The US constitution is stupid and only idiots would care about what a bunch of dead guys wrote 200 years ago. Smart peoople, like us geniuses in Oz don't run our country that way.

M: Um, Oz has a constitution, modeled on the US one, with similar charters and freedoms and Bill of Rights. It was framed a century ago. Here's the link.

Australia has no bill of rights. Second of all, there is nothing wrong with a constitution nor the premise of a constitution. The problem is with the wording and what is written in the constitution.

C: (Oh, did not know Oz - his homeland - had a constitution). Yeah, but the Oz constitution is ratified. So it's better. So nyeah. (Apparently in 'C" speak - 'ratified = updated and modified in recent history).

Well it is. But what would I know. Ratified for us means as per the last 10 or 20 years. Refer to HDI to see their ratification working out for them.

M: Um, US Constitution was ratified (in correct sense) by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and a plurality of original 13 colonies. Moreover, it's "ratified" (in C's sense) in that it has an Amendment formula, and has been amended 27 times. Thus the Constitution has remained current with the times and has adjusted for important social changes such as the end of slavery, and equal protection. Links here, here, here.

Once again amended to what. To allow babies born here to automatically qualify for citizenship. Sorry that is moronic.

The US constitution is stupid and only idiots would care about what a bunch of dead guys wrote 200 years ago. Smart peoople, like us geniuses in Oz don't run our country that way.

The founding fathers are rolling in their graves and did not intent on America to end up the way it is. Furthermore, if the system is so good and equitable why is it that you guys fail to win any international recognition or awards for it. Why is it that is has not translated into a successful well oiled society but rather one has become a cesspool of crime?

Edited June 9, 2009 by Constellation

[Susita 175]

I think you guys should take it outside.

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Ewok needs to create a new subforum called "The Dungeon" where people can go duke it out without worrying about mods

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Ewok needs to create a new subforum called "The Dungeon" where people can go duke it out without worrying about mods

Isn't that why we ended up with the "other" place?