Friday, June 24, 2011

Benjamin Franklin Speaks about The Constitution

via Sam Wise Gingy commenting on my post on Daily Kos

The idea that what a group of smart men decided two hundred years ago should be considered beyond question today is madness.

Even Ben Franklin himself agrees with me.

3 comments:

  1. So did the real Ben Franklin. That's why there's a constitutional amendment process -- so you can change things that weren't so questionable 200 years ago. The problem is when we start fiddling with the constitution without amending it -- suddenly no one can be sure what the constitution means anymore, and government can do whatever it wants.

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  2. Thanks Joshua. How about if we just stop exaggerating the current significance of the 2A and think of it more like the 3rd.

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