If the US got to the point of rewriting or coming up with a new constitution, which minds would be the equivalent of the minds today? To rewrite the whole thing?

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t think that similar mindsets would be a goal. They lived in a world 250 years ago. They owned slaves. They basically owned their wives.

  What you need are people who actually draw the right conclusions from the mistakes that have been made on those 250 years.

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  • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And in your opinion in gathering a group of the greatest minds of today who would you include to accomplish those goals?>

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    • Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      PhD level Historians

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• watson387@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  None. I don’t trust any politicians of this day and age to be honest and responsible enough to do it.

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• circuitfarmer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’d have Grok do it.

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• njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s plenty of extremely accomplished and well respected legal Scholars and constitutional Scholars and and such who are writing and operating right now. You don’t hear about them much because they’re not you know clickbait Worthy, but they’re out there. There’s no reason to think they are less capable than the founding fathers. We tend to mythologize the founding fathers to an absurd degree.

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• Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You fucking know it would be vibe written by AI

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• ElectricTrombone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Snap elections. If someone fucks up, vote em out. No more of this “oh no I guess we have to wait 4-5 years before we can do anything” bullshit.

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• Tiral@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’d need to get 1,000 random Americans in a room for a year with supervised communication/visitations with their family. No chance for sponsorships, no being bought off, no one is a political figure.

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  • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    While that may be a good point but it brings us right back to the Watchmen paradox.

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• BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  To be honest stuff like that should be delegated to team of historians lawyers and engineers. And put on the github like open source code before implementing.

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• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t really have an answer for who should write it but I think they need to think about how MAGA came into power and create precautions against it ever happening again.

  If politicians commit serious crimes, they need to be immediately removed from office and barred from running again

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• devolution@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  White men should have no access to it when it’s written for starters.

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  • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then who would you pick to do it?

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    • devolution@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Anyone else.

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