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Ideally, I'd like for us to consider a Constitutional Convention every 50 years or so to make some changes, but in our current political climate, I don't expect that would be a very fruitful exercise

When I think about the kind of people who probably would be selected as delegates to a constitutional convention today, I have a lot of trouble imagining that they would improve on the Constitution as it now exists. I find it easier to believe that they would do a great deal of harm.
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Yep.  I love the idea in theory, and recoil from it in horror in how it would likely be practiced.
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In my college years it was the eurocommunist professors that argued for a constitutional convention. More recently, I hear the same arguments from the far right. Given attraction of the idea to both extremes, I'm against it.

I also sometimes wonder how the original constitutional convention would have played out on Twitter. I can't see things working out well if some of the correspondence of the founders had been broadcast instantly to all.

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[quote author=terry link=topic=14611.msg156736#msg156736 date=1455754330]
[quote author=ColoradoTree link=topic=14611.msg156732#msg156732 date=1455751984]
Ideally, I'd like for us to consider a Constitutional Convention every 50 years or so to make some changes, but in our current political climate, I don't expect that would be a very fruitful exercise

When I think about the kind of people who probably would be selected as delegates to a constitutional convention today, I have a lot of trouble imagining that they would improve on the Constitution as it now exists. I find it easier to believe that they would do a great deal of harm.
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Yep.  I love the idea in theory, and recoil from it in horror in how it would likely be practiced.
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In my college years it was the eurocommunist professors that argued for a constitutional convention. More recently, I hear the same arguments from the far right. Given attraction of the idea to both extremes, I'm against it.

I also sometimes wonder how the original constitutional convention would have played out on Twitter. I can't see things working out well if some of the correspondence of the founders had been broadcast instantly to all.