If we go back to the original intent of the framers of the Constitution

[maynard]

.....What will we loose?

1. Medicare
2. Medicaid
3. Social Security
4. Women's right to vote
5. Women's right to own property
6. Any rights of women that we have earned since the framing of the constitution

Let's add to this list.......

[parasim]

1. good point.

but it's "lose" not "loose". just sayin'

on edit: not trying to be a spelling nazi, but that one particularly irks me... my apologies.

[maynard]

5. thanks for the correction....

I am tired and not thinking straight......But, I still want Health Care Reform.

[muntrv]

2. The Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

[valerief]

3. Yeah, but we'd gain slavery. That' pretty much what our privately owned

prisons are doing now anyway.

[leftofthedial]

16. The owners of our country don't want slavery.

they had to feed and house their slaves and pay for their "health care."

They'd much prefer a return to sharecroppery.

[valerief]

18. Good point. That and an off-shorerery. nt

[provis99]

4. 7. lose free black people

8. we'd lose the Army (Founders were against standing army)
9. lose fire protection (Founders silent, fire protection was private in those days)
10. lose police (no police in those days; catch your own criminals)

[PA Democrat]

6. Emancipation

environmetal protections,

food and drug safety,

the space program,

the National Institutes of health and all of the advances in health care they have facilitated.

[csziggy]

7. OK

Return of slavery and indentured servitude
Food & Drug Administration - everything they do
Department of Agriculture - Assistance to farmers
NASA - no satellites for communications, weather monitoring, scientific missions, spy satellites
NOAA - no weather forecasts or predictions
FCC - no regulations over communications or assignment of frequency bands for standardization of TV, radio and communications equipment
CDC - no monitoring of illnesses or ability to prepare for outbreaks, no advanced warning so there is production of vaccines


That's all I can come up with right now.

[frogcycle]

8. income tax

ok, off point, just having fun

[Cresent City Kid]

20. That's not that far off point

I was going to say that and not take it back. Of course it has to be done right with the rich paying their fair share.

[barbiegeek]

9. African Americans will count as only 5/6 of a man & Slavery will be back.

[BlooInBloo]

17. 3/5.

[steelmania75]

10. slavery

[Statistical]

11. I think you misunderstand original intent.

Original intend doesn't mean the Constitution can't be changed.

Slavery for example was abolished by an amendment and the Constitution was designed to be amended.
No scholar considers original intent to "bring back slavery" or "preventing women from voting".

No the founders INTENDED the Constitution to be amended and once amended the amended version is what is binding.

So the founders intent for example on the 3/5th compromise is no longer relevant because of the 14th amendment.

Where original intent applies is to parts of the Constitution not amended like the interstate commerce clause, or full faith and credit clause.

Take the 2nd for example. IF we passed an amendment changing the second (limiting it or repealing it completely) then the amended version is what matters and in 1000 years legal scholars may be looking at the original intent circa 2009 when the 28th amendment to the United State Constitution radically redefined the 2nd. The "original" original intent is no longer valid because the 2nd has been redefined in the 28th. What is relevent is the intent in 2009 behind the wording of the 28th.

Until that happens the original intent circa 1776 is what matter because it hasn't been modified.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. and that is also correct

[maynard]

15. I was referring to what protesters have been saying

They want the constitution to be back to what the founders originally wrote into it. There were many amendments added that were added to clarify their original intent. These were done long after the framers had died.... Laws were later passed to clarify..... I have a lot of crazy friends who need help with their "original intent of the constitution...as the framers wrote it."

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Actually the original intent includes common welfare

see Medicare, Social Security and the rest of the social net we have, or used to have.

Now women's rights... the idiots who push this don't realize many of them good ol' white males would not be able to vote either... not property owners...

Ah the irony. Pointed this to one just the other day... he ahem. got a lot whiter.

[arcadian]

13. I say we go back to Plutarch and Pliny.

[FLAprogressive]

19. What the losertarians don't understand is that there was no such thing as "health care" in the 1770s

You really think Thomas Jefferson or Ben Franklin would call providing quality health care to all "tyranny"? I really doubt it....after all, Franklin founded the first public hospital. That socialist.