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Old 08-04-2002, 10:18 AM  
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Originally posted by gothweb
PS. The Consitution was intentionally written by its framers to create a government that could be overthrown. They had seen what an oppressive regime could be like, and they knew eventually their rules could be subverted to create a society that was equally oppressive.

Thomas Jefferson once said he intented the Constitution to last no more than a few decades. So, if you want to uphold the ideals of the Consitution, you should do so by scrapping it and writing a document that is in line with our times. And that right there is the very heart of being Liberal-- progress versus tradition.
The Constitution wasn't written to create a government to be Overthrown. The beauty of the Constitution was that it was written to be changed, to be altered as man encountered new challenges along the way of governing it's People.

We the People. Right?

You are correct "they" had seen what an oppresive regime could be like, and that is exactly why they wrote and prepared the document the way they did.

To leave room for changing their mistakes because they looked to the future by knowing their past, as all good leaders should.

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