• Marin_Rider@aussie.zone
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    bruh your constitution isn’t some holy scripture handed down from heaven in some perfect form. why do you think “ammendments” happened in the first place? they are a legal expression of your cultures appetite for what your country stands for, and can be changed.

    you guys (as a whole) don’t want it to.

    ergo, its cultural

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      The amendments are there because a 2/3rds vote of the House and Senate voted for them and 3/4 of the states ratified them. Until a similar vote un-does them, they are the law of the land.

        • jordanlund@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Another vote won’t undo them because we’re too polarized as a nation.

          Republicans won’t support an amendment proposed by Democrats purely because Democrats propose it.

          They also won’t propose their own because, like you say, gun culture.

          OTOH - Republicans ARE (oddly) down for throwing out the ENTIRE constitution and re-doing it. The process is calling for a Constitutional Convention and currently there are 28 of the necessary 34 states down for doing this. https://www.commoncause.org/our-work/constitution-courts-and-democracy-issues/article-v-convention/#

          The problem here is once they get the 34 states on board, and write a new Constitution, they need 38 states to ratify the new Constitution.

          As a bonus, because this drive is coming from the right, any new Constitution is going to be filled with poison pills that the Democratic states will never support (banning corporate taxes, outlawing abortion, restricting voting rights, and expanded gun rights).