Your Fantasy US Constitution

General Zod

Banned
One quibble. While I heartily agree with your intent, I doubt the Framers would have considered the prospect of incompetent counsel, absent our experience with PDs & our extremely clogged courts.

Nonetheless, an incompetent counsel is a problem which a farsighted Framer can still foresee, and the whole point of my "optimized" US Constitution is predicated on the PoD of the Framers getting a substantial extra amount of plausible foresight (and Canada joining the American Revolution from the start). I only kept stuff outside of the Constitution which would have been truly outside their frame of reference or politically unworkable (such as slavery, popular election of the POTUS, lame-duck Congress, women suffrage, etc.).
 

King Thomas

Banned
How about "The right to bear muskets and one shot pistols shall not be infringed" ?

That way people can still hunt where and when legally allowed to, defend their homes,and do other legal things with guns, but they would find it harder to run amuk with guns ect.
 
Nonetheless, an incompetent counsel is a problem which a farsighted Framer can still foresee, and the whole point of my "optimized" US Constitution is predicated on the PoD of the Framers getting a substantial extra amount of plausible foresight (and Canada joining the American Revolution from the start). I only kept stuff outside of the Constitution which would have been truly outside their frame of reference or politically unworkable (such as slavery, popular election of the POTUS, lame-duck Congress, women suffrage, etc.).
I don't disagree it's foreseeable, I just find it a very long shot. I wouldn't do it. (Feel free to ignore me.:p)
 
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