>let's make a law that people will have to follow for eternity even though we have no idea what kind of world they'll be living in or if they will like the law we make>heh
>>16887568>let's have a process to amend it as time goes on
>>16887568the constitution is a fair response to the history of the english common law. Medieval Anglos pioneered pretty much everything that was eventually incorporated into the bill of rights, such as due process, but their actual track record of honoring those great ideas they come up with leaves something to be desired. Just look at how comically evil star chamber was, and they came into existence centuries after the english began developing the concept of due process (historically called the "law of the land.")Having an actual written document which codifies individual rights that is supreme amongst all laws, but which also provides a means for democratic change should the need arise reaches a nice middle ground between playing so loosey goosey with rights that it's not clear whether they exist on the one hand, and allowing long-dead men to rule from the grave on the other.
>>16887568What law? The document doesn't tell people they have to do anything. The document tells the government what it's not allowed to do and if it oversteps that line the people can destroy it
>>16887614It sets up a system of government which has a far greater impact on your life than a list of what you can and you can't do.
>>16887568It's amendable.
>>16887786causes depressions from money printing?
There's the amendment process, but SCOTUS judicial activism is the easier way to do it
>>16887851only in theory. In practice it's impossible to get 3/4 majority when there's 40 tiny states with no people on it whose interests are completely at odds with the 10 big states with all the people.
>>16888089damn maybe massive polities are a fucking mistake and we need to go back to citystates ASAP>but anon what about the military! big states let you defend yourself from big states!nukes.
>>16888101The US constitution was designed for a massive federal country however.
>>16889143>The US constitution was designed for a massive federal country however.No it wasnt, hence the federalist vs anti-federalist arguments.... And the civil war
>>16889151Both sides in the cuvil war massively centralized federal authority. Conscription, income taxes, mass seizure of private property, both sides did things that would have driven any of the founding fathers to revolt.
>>16887568>amendment /ə-mĕnd′mənt/>noun>The act of changing for the better; improvement. >A correction or alteration, as in a manuscript. >The process of formally altering or adding to a document or record.Btw, still the greatest governing document known to man. Not a single other nation even comes close, pissbaby tyrants and peaceniks be damned.
>>16890279I love how americans seethe when they are told the historical fact that they have no history, no culture. America is just a country for the british bourgeois tax evaders to base society on GDP kekIt's pathetic that all americans have in their shitty life is the romanticisation of bourgeois democracy
>>16890299I'm not even American. You're just another example of a copelord who refuses to acknowledge the reality of the situation.
You have to implement a certain amount of inertia and stricture in a constitution, otherwise the unscrupulous and shortsighted will abuse the fuck out of it. It's a good design principle to be more conservative the deeper a structural choice is.
>>16887612>comically evilTwitter phrase for twitter cucksGreat post otherwise, keep it up!
>>16887614>>16887897Grow up loser
>>16890299I love the smell of Euroseethe in the afternoon
>>16890336>Twitter phrase for twitter cucksfair enough. I don't know where I picked up the phrase in my vernacular, but I always use literally. A comic is a dumb, bad story for babies. Something to me that is "comically evil" is something that is so utterly depraved for no good reason that it reads like something some idiot wrote for a baby story.Star chamber famously hacked people's noses and ears and shit off on completely bogus chargesI remember reading this one case where some soldier serving in the British navy accused his superior officer of treason by selling off the ship's supply of gunpowder and filling the barrels with sand instead. I think this accusation might have actually turned out to be at least partially true, but he was convicted of riot in star chamber and so they cut off his ears and stuck him in a pillory in the middle of town with a sign around his neck saying "traitor" or something like that. Profoundly sick situation.
>>16890361>The constitution has laws in it that force me to love self induced depressions and inflationNo I don't think it does
What is stronger than LawIt is in heart
>>16890299>I loveNo you don't
