The Re-Constitution Version 2022.09.18
More Interesting Developments For Changing The Constitution
Latest Version of the US Re-Constitution
Not too many significant changes since the last time. I believe that it’s time to move on to writing more about the steps we should take to use amendments to our Constitution to improve our political climate.
Wall Street Journal Proposes Newsom-DeSantis Debates
This September 18, 2022 Opinion Piece echoes my June 22nd post. Glad to read that my great ideas are catching on. Most of the commenters on the piece assume that the debates would be held in the usual format with a panel of reporters and a moderator controlling the questions. That would be a mistake.
I recommended that each Governor ask his own questions and each would have equal time to speak. Like a timed chess match, while they were talking, their allotted time would be decreasing. One speaker could not interrupt the other speaker while he controlled the clock. Hopefully, this becomes the accepted format going forward for all political debates. It eliminates the problems of political bias with the moderators, and the litany of interruptions and over-running of time practiced by many candidates.
The Political Earthquake In Chile
On September 4, 2022, Chileans overwhelming rejected the replacement for their 1980 Constitution by a 62% Reject to 32% Approve margin. The way that the Chileans picked the delegates to the Constitutional Convention selected to draft the new document skewed about 3 to 1 Progressives vs Conservatives. This 2022 version had 388 Articles guaranteeing everything from leisure, education, housing, and about 100 other “rights.”
I will be writing a post that looks at the different philosophies of Constitutionalism. Our philosophy is that Constitutions are limitations upon the government to protect the people from infringement of their rights while the Chilean, Venezuelan, South African, and 1977 Soviet Constitution were blueprints for what the people are entitled to receive from the State.
The Constitution In Jeopardy
I finished the book written by Russ Feingold and Peter Prindiville that I covered in my previous post. After reading it, I realized that I need to write a lengthlier essay about Article 5 and its provision for a Constitutional Convention. Most of the critiques of Article 5 are simply obtuse, wrong-headed, and devoid of any charitable interpretations.
David Barulich