Debunking Sacred Political Myths

IT BECOMES NECESSARY, in the words of Jefferson, to come clean, for the sake of political cleanliness. Although we are brainwashingly supposed to believe that the U.S. Constitution is a perfect, sacred inviolable document, incapable of improvement, it is, alas, not. Far from it. It is often vague, imprecise, and it established institutions of questionable effectiveness, as well as adding amendments which contradict directly previous amendments.It als considers African-Americans to be three fifths of a human being apiece, which is a highly questionable idea, to say the very least. The constitution is a hodge podge, piecemeal patchwork of guesses and errors which has serve us fairly well,, to a point, but not well enough, as witnessed by our continuous haggling over its meaning. It was never by its author, Madison, nor Madison's mentor Jefferson to be anything more than a short lived, temporary, stop gap measure, and they both assumed that their descendants would replace it with something much better under less immediacy and stress, and further, more deliberate consideration. Now is the for us to replace it with a document far better suited to modernity, far more appropriate to the twenty first century, to fulfill the expectations of Jefferson and Madison, both of whom assumed that their original document would last about one generation, and no more.They would both in fact be appalled by the fact that we are still using their creation over two hundred years beyond their time, and we should also be. Jefferson explicitly said that every generation should write and use its own constitution, in order to avoid being governed by its ancestors. WE are the descendants of Madison and Jefferson, and they are still governing us,and they would laugh and roll their eyes at us for our passive willingness to submit to their dead tyranny. Conservative lawyers, lawmakers, and magistrates piously proclaim their allegiance to Madison's original intent , as if after all these years they can read his mind, or as  if words exist anywhere which require no interpretation by the reader to understand them. These self proclaimed "originalists"  or "textualists" as they call themselves area as phony and imperfect as Madison's document, a document which was designed primarily to prevent the people of the United States from having any real political power. If originalists were true to their word, they would read the second amendment the way it was written, with the intent of the framer's, to mean that anyone who is a member of a state controlled militia can bear a muzzle loading musket. Nobody can demonstrate that anywhere in the second amendment do the authors say that people in the future may bear whatever arms technology makes available, including automatic assault weapons. It is easy to call yourself an originalist, as if you are true blue to the constitution, but it is impossible to actually be one.If we were courageous and respected the framers, we would do as they wished, and write our own constitution, and stop mooching off theirs.