Why is the US Constitution so hard to amend? - Peter Paccone
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Date: 2020-08-22
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James
This amendment never made it by committees.
Amendment XXVIII.
A land area ceded by any state to the administration of the Federal Constitution shall be a permanent federal District. Such federal Districts shall have an area of not less than one secure square mile and not more than a 100 secure square miles. All lands within the Federal District shall revert to the status of federal property under the sole administration of the United States Congress and must become federal property unless used in direct relation to the federal administration. All areas within the Federal District not in use for federal administration will be returned to a prestine or forested state prior to Constitution ratification. All persons living or born within such a District shall be considered a temporary resident with representation in Congress allocated by the ceding states.
In a national environmental emergency or attack by foreign elements of any form, a state may cede other Districts within its borders in order to mitigate such a threat to the territory, state or states. The Federal District shall supply all necessary modern energy, communication, health, and environmental infrastructures and service for the District and state areas under threat. No condition of posse comitatis shall exist concerning access to the ceded federal District.
A ceded District shall remain federal property for not less than two generations, unless changed by two-thirds majority votes of all legislatures directly involved.
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This amendment never made it by committees.
Amendment XXVIII.
A land area ceded by any state to the administration of the Federal Constitution shall be a permanent federal District. Such federal Districts shall have an area of not less than one secure square mile and not more than a 100 secure square miles. All lands within the Federal District shall revert to the status of federal property under the sole administration of the United States Congress and must become federal property unless used in direct relation to the federal administration. All areas within the Federal District not in use for federal administration will be returned to a prestine or forested state prior to Constitution ratification. All persons living or born within such a District shall be considered a temporary resident with representation in Congress allocated by the ceding states.
In a national environmental emergency or attack by foreign elements of any form, a state may cede other Districts within its borders in order to mitigate such a threat to the territory, state or states. The Federal District shall supply all necessary modern energy, communication, health, and environmental infrastructures and service for the District and state areas under threat. No condition of posse comitatis shall exist concerning access to the ceded federal District.
A ceded District shall remain federal property for not less than two generations, unless changed by two-thirds majority votes of all legislatures directly involved.
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Merione
I have a question and I can't seem to find any answer online: once and amendment passes, why is it appended at the end of the main text as a separate entity instead of being included into the text itself? In my country, Italy, when we amend our Constitution the amendment either adds new sentences to the current text or modifies/deletes existing articles, so that the new Constitution actually reflects the change. Why does the US keep the original text unchanged and just adds footnotes to it?
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I have a question and I can't seem to find any answer online: once and amendment passes, why is it appended at the end of the main text as a separate entity instead of being included into the text itself? In my country, Italy, when we amend our Constitution the amendment either adds new sentences to the current text or modifies/deletes existing articles, so that the new Constitution actually reflects the change. Why does the US keep the original text unchanged and just adds footnotes to it?
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Chong
Why keep mumbling? They all already have seen it want has happened to me. What is the such point to explaining here about their laws? Anyway such not moving as anyways. What more keep going as keep repeating? Lets just make simple here. Before we all go into such broken laws.
First of all, what is the point here to explaining their amendments? And do I need to hear about their brand new histories of theirs? Most all of all, what is the whole point here?
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Why keep mumbling? They all already have seen it want has happened to me. What is the such point to explaining here about their laws? Anyway such not moving as anyways. What more keep going as keep repeating? Lets just make simple here. Before we all go into such broken laws.
First of all, what is the point here to explaining their amendments? And do I need to hear about their brand new histories of theirs? Most all of all, what is the whole point here?
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Cam
Thankfully the constitution is hard to change. This century we have crazy SJWs, last century we had prohibitionists.
The point being: Crazy people are always trying to rewrite the rules and it takes a very dark turn when they do (look at the massively violence and death that resulted from the 18th Amendment)
Thankfully the founders recognized this, gave us all the fundamental rights, and then made it extremely difficult to remove/change those rights.
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Thankfully the constitution is hard to change. This century we have crazy SJWs, last century we had prohibitionists.
The point being: Crazy people are always trying to rewrite the rules and it takes a very dark turn when they do (look at the massively violence and death that resulted from the 18th Amendment)
Thankfully the founders recognized this, gave us all the fundamental rights, and then made it extremely difficult to remove/change those rights.
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Matthew
The Constitution in its entirety is outdated, needs to be abolished entirely and replaced with a new one under the direct oversight of the United Nations where the global community is put first over the individual nation. Hopefully then a proper precedent can be set where all nations of the world be required to replace their constitutions under the same direct UN oversight.
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The Constitution in its entirety is outdated, needs to be abolished entirely and replaced with a new one under the direct oversight of the United Nations where the global community is put first over the individual nation. Hopefully then a proper precedent can be set where all nations of the world be required to replace their constitutions under the same direct UN oversight.
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Captain
If, after watching this, you think the current U. S. Constitution is difficult to amend, take a look at its predecessor, the Articles of Confederation. Any amendment to this document required the ratification of all the states, without exception. It only took one state to kill any attempt at an amendment, and this happened frequently during the Articles' brief tenure.
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If, after watching this, you think the current U. S. Constitution is difficult to amend, take a look at its predecessor, the Articles of Confederation. Any amendment to this document required the ratification of all the states, without exception. It only took one state to kill any attempt at an amendment, and this happened frequently during the Articles' brief tenure.
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Tshering
You've mentioned amendments to Constitution in countries like Germany and France which is comparatively very less with respect to India. Indian Constitution has been amended for 104 times which is a big big number for a democratic country. I feel this needed a mention in your video and was lacking.
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You've mentioned amendments to Constitution in countries like Germany and France which is comparatively very less with respect to India. Indian Constitution has been amended for 104 times which is a big big number for a democratic country. I feel this needed a mention in your video and was lacking.
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Chong
3: 50. Every 19 years change laws or updates new laws that after they have experienced. With working or without working. Either ways updates the laws, every 19 years, kind of make sense. Depending upon what laws that requires those of 19 updates. The point here, lets be honest here indirectly.
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3: 50. Every 19 years change laws or updates new laws that after they have experienced. With working or without working. Either ways updates the laws, every 19 years, kind of make sense. Depending upon what laws that requires those of 19 updates. The point here, lets be honest here indirectly.
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Chong
Constitutions. After tax payers have made taxes. In order to proceed. But without the laws of plans, how can they even bother to spending tax payers money? Most of all, who have authorized those spending tax payers money? Without active the laws? Such frauds to their own tax payers.
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Constitutions. After tax payers have made taxes. In order to proceed. But without the laws of plans, how can they even bother to spending tax payers money? Most of all, who have authorized those spending tax payers money? Without active the laws? Such frauds to their own tax payers.
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Bas
Is this not a kind of Constitution + Amendments which eventually falls in their own sword of succes? And what is this country which liberated us, the Netherlands 1944-1945, does inflict so much harm to itself. So many Nobel-prizes etcetera. What are you doing US of A?
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Is this not a kind of Constitution + Amendments which eventually falls in their own sword of succes? And what is this country which liberated us, the Netherlands 1944-1945, does inflict so much harm to itself. So many Nobel-prizes etcetera. What are you doing US of A?
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