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In reply to the discussion: The "Well Regulated Militia" clause in plain English and other liberal Constitutional musings [View all]CTyankee
(63,912 posts)It is old and outdated. Attempts to shoehorn it into modern American society is, to me. somewhat laughable.
There was an article in the NYT a few months ago that talked about how emerging democracies in the rest of the world are no longer looking to our U.S. Constitution as a model for their own. They find it too arbitrary and inflexible for their own purposes. They have women's rights woven into their new constitutions and we can't even MENTION them in ours! What an outrage!
Have you even LOOKED at other constitutions in these countries to see what they are doing?
We think that somehow we are the end all and be all of democracy and other countries are just abandoning our own constitution as unworkable for their purposes. They look beyond us. And they are right to do so.
We are woefully out of date and out of step with modernity. Time to step up.
But we won't. We keep having these dreary conversations on this 18th century document that we can't make work...sad...