I know about Jefferson and his 20 year automatic sunset phase for laws at all levels, except for Constitutions, charters, and other founding documents that can be amended. Hadn’t heard that Franklin wanted to sunset the Constitution itself as well. Not sure that we would have lasted this long if Franklin had gotten his way there.
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Fredselfish@lemmy.world 5 months agoAlso Benjamin Franklin said that he believed constitution should torn up and redone every 30 years. We shouldn’t even be using it 200 years later.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 months ago
angrystego@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Are you ready for some tearing up and redoing of constitution now?
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No, I’m ready for something else though are you?
angrystego@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m flattered, but I’m not in the mood right now. I’ll be in my corner worrying about constitution redoings…
Soggy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sure, you’d end up with at least two countries because many states would just refuse to join the new republic.
tamal3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Let’s go crowd sourced, a la Iceland. That truly opened my eyes to the political possibilities in the Internet age… If only big corps didn’t make all the decisions.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Do you really want to do that now knowing who would put an autograph there?
angrystego@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Exactly, that was my point.