Thread: Time for a new US Constitution?
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Old 10-11-2007, 01:56 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sgtdmski View Post
The beauty of our Constitution was that it did allow for change, not like it is constantly being done today, through the judiciary, but rather through the amendment process. Our Constitution was a work of beauty, it created an nation based upon an ideal, that all men were created equal.
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Or more accurately all white male landowners were created equal.




The electoral college still works, why change something that is not broken???? Giving more power to larger more populous states would mean that a candidate could win the Presidency by carrying only 8 states.
But those big 8 states subsidise almost all the other states (a few are self-financing) so why shouldn't "he who pays the piper call the tune"?

The current system gives an imbalanced voice to small states with relatively small populations who can elect a President against the wishes of the vast majority of their fellow Americans.

And the current system of primaries is also completely irrational and inequitable, even though it isn't a Constitutional matter.

Why not hold all the primaries on the same day?

It looks like it's heading that way next year