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Intro2Logic
02/02/23 7:56:01 PM
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Their first attempt at doing so made everybody mad and didn't last a decade. Their second attempt made it to one competitive election before needing to be fixed, and then trucked along 60 years til the country split in two.

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Turtlemayor333
02/02/23 7:58:39 PM
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If you brought the Founding Fathers into 2023 they would think a toaster is witchcraft

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Ratchetrockon
02/02/23 7:59:38 PM
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They were just a group of mostly young guys having fun

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Background_Guy
02/02/23 8:02:32 PM
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Bruh the US under the constitution is one of the longest lasting governments in the entire world right now. I think only the UK and Iceland are older. It worked, we just need an update.
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theAteam
02/02/23 8:03:05 PM
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It's purpose in keeping rich landowners at the top of society has been pretty efficient.

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ElatedVenusaur
02/02/23 8:06:19 PM
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theAteam posted...
It's purpose in keeping rich landowners at the top of society has been pretty efficient.
Oh yes, from a certain view, they were wildly successful in their project of ensuring that government would be controlled by the interests of the wealthy and the unwashed masses would be siloed away from any meaningful power.

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DrizztLink
02/02/23 8:07:13 PM
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Turtlemayor333 posted...
If you brought the Founding Fathers into 2023 they would think a toaster is witchcraft
Most of them.

Franklin would try to fuck to toaster.

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Intro2Logic
02/02/23 8:07:15 PM
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Background_Guy posted...
It worked, we just need an update.
It got us to the Civil War; amendments since then are what's worked to get us here.

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PMarth2002
02/02/23 8:07:49 PM
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Intro2Logic posted...
and then trucked along 60 years til the country split in two.

That's because of slavery, not because of the particulars of our government.

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Intro2Logic
02/02/23 8:08:50 PM
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PMarth2002 posted...
That's because of slavery, not because of the particulars of our government.
The government they designed was made with slavery in mind!

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knightmarexx
02/02/23 8:09:57 PM
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Background_Guy posted...
Bruh the US under the constitution is one of the longest lasting governments in the entire world right now. I think only the UK and Iceland are older. It worked, we just need an update.

San Marino is the world's oldest republic that still exists. It was started on 3 September in A.D. 301 by a skilled builder called Saint Marinus.
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gunplagirl
02/02/23 8:10:21 PM
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Intro2Logic posted...
The government they designed was made with slavery in mind!
This

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thronedfire2
02/02/23 8:10:27 PM
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PMarth2002 posted...
That's because of slavery, not because of the particulars of our government.

yeah they just forgot to consider black people human beings when they wrote the constitution


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DrizztLink
02/02/23 8:10:33 PM
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PMarth2002 posted...
That's because of slavery, not because of the particulars of our government.
Slavery was a particular of our government.

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A_Good_Boy
02/02/23 8:40:27 PM
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Intro2Logic posted...
It got us to the Civil War; amendments since then are what's worked to get us here.
It was only ever ratified because of amendments in the first place.

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Agonized_rufous
02/02/23 8:45:45 PM
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You're over hear complaining about a cake but they gave us some hella ingredients fam

No bussin, straight up make another cake. No cap


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Damn_Underscore
02/02/23 8:48:16 PM
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I'm not sure if the Constitution is too easy to amend or not. It can become outdated and very fifficult to fix that, but imagine if politicians and lobbyist groups could gain support for a Constitutional Amendment like they do know with political policies and offices

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