A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution printed 237 years ago sent to the states to be ratified is being auctioned Thursday evening in North Carolina.
  • Hegar@fedia.io
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    12 days ago

    The rights that US citizens enjoy are standard across the overwhelming majority of our global peers, for any sensible definition of peer.

    we haven’t followed the rules the constitution imposed

    A good constitution would be less ignorable. We ignore the words ‘well regulated militia’, for example.

    Part of the reason Russia succeeded in getting trump elected is because our system, as laid out in the constitution, allows the person who got less votes to win sometimes. That’s bad design.