Agreed, unfortunately the founders did not see fit to add an expiration date and made it essentially impossible to update it given our current divisions.
If you read the founders thoughts, there was an idea that all laws should expire every 19 years.
But what they wanted and what they enacted are two different things.
Want a new Constitution? Great, get 34 states to call for a Convention, write one, then get 38 states to ratify the new one. Good luck!
Currently, 28 of the required 34 states would call for a convention. Buuut they're all Red states. So the 2nd Amendment would likely be enshrined EVEN HARDER, along with taking the vote away from women and minorities, banning abortion, establishing a state religion, etc. etc.
Yeah, anyone who pushes for a Constitutional Convention these days hasn't done the math (or has ulterior motives). Anything we'd end up would be far worse than what we have.
Worse AND, since there's no real process for running a Convention, I could see a scenario where the old one is thrown out, but we can't seem to agree on a new one either, leaving the country adrift.
Agreed, unfortunately the founders did not see fit to add an expiration date and made it essentially impossible to update it given our current divisions.
If you read the founders thoughts, there was an idea that all laws should expire every 19 years.
https://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/thomas-jefferson-on-whether-the-american-constitution-is-binding-on-those-who-were-not-born-at-the-time-it-was-signed-and-agreed-to-1789
But what they wanted and what they enacted are two different things.
Want a new Constitution? Great, get 34 states to call for a Convention, write one, then get 38 states to ratify the new one. Good luck!
Currently, 28 of the required 34 states would call for a convention. Buuut they're all Red states. So the 2nd Amendment would likely be enshrined EVEN HARDER, along with taking the vote away from women and minorities, banning abortion, establishing a state religion, etc. etc.
https://www.commoncause.org/our-work/constitution-courts-and-democracy-issues/article-v-convention/
Yeah, anyone who pushes for a Constitutional Convention these days hasn't done the math (or has ulterior motives). Anything we'd end up would be far worse than what we have.
Worse AND, since there's no real process for running a Convention, I could see a scenario where the old one is thrown out, but we can't seem to agree on a new one either, leaving the country adrift.