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Originally posted by gothweb
Nope. Written to be overthrown. I swear. Start over from scratch. The French are on I believe their Fifth Constitution now, for instance. If you take a 250 year old document and revise it, you get a cobbled mess. If you write a new one, you get something that works for *this* era.
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I don't agree with that. If you replaced the Constitution whenever it was convenient you would have anarchy. It was meant, as Fletch stated, to be revised. The process of revision was purposefully made difficult to avoid having people come in and rewrite it when they believed it would suit their needs.
I'm not familiar with the French system, but I would venture to think each of their consitutions is closer to a revision rather than a complete rewrite of the previous ones.