The most important discussion that should be happening now is not a Republican discussion, or a Democrat discussion, or any other political party discussion. It is a discussion of what we would like to the United States of America to be.
Recently a friend of mine mentioned that needed a declaration of war is just not pragmatic and authorization from Congress should be enought. I don't think that it should be enough because people (our people) die. That aside, the Constitution isn't meant to be pragmatic. It is meant to be a constraint on the federal government. I wonder what other parts of the Constitution are no longer pragmatic and should be simply discarded? Of course they won't discard any part of it. That would be too problematic and would take too long, and as our President has said "we can't wait."
Wake the hell up people.
If it isn't pragmatic, amend the constitution to remove that requirement. It isn't congress' place to dismiss any portion of the constitution. Nor is it the president's place. The courts don't even have that power. Only the people (as represented by their State legislators) can do that in cooperation with congress.
ReplyDeleteThe doctrine of separation of powers is meant to keep government from becoming too strong. Of course the Constitution is just a piece of paper, it can't defend itself.
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