Reply #16: Jefferson favored revising it every 10 years

[The White Tree]

I was at Monticello about 4 weeks ago and the visitors center has a documentary onm Jefferson and it was implied in the documentary, either by one of the people they interviewed or in the narration, I can't remember which, that Thomas Jefferson was in favor of the idea that the Constitution should be revised at set intervals to more accurately reflect the situation in the country at the time. An interesting, though possibly inpractical idea.

As far as revising the current Constitution, I'm in favor of adding a Marriage Ammendment to it.

A rough draft of the ammendment would be:

Whereas our democracy rests on the founding principal that all men and women are created equal, with certain unalienble rights; whereas one of those rights is the pursuit of happiness; and whereas a loving relationship between 2 consenting adults is consistant with the right to the pursuit of happiness; the Constitution is hereby ammended to allow the legal marriage of two consenting adults, as long as at least 1 is a citizen of the United States of America, with all rights and privelages conveyed by that institution to be legally recognized by all states and offices of the United States of America.