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f1fanatic:
Anyone concerned with the effort to get a Article V, Convention of the States in Nebraska? To me this seems like opening the door to rewriting the Constitution. And there's nothing wrong with the Constitution, just that it needs to have the dust blown off and be adhered to more.

depserv:
There has been a lot of talk about this on the internet (among other places).  I would take a close look at who runs government in a majority of the states before being comfortable with it.  Democrats and their RINO enablers have done as much damage to the Constitution as they are able, and something like this could lead to complete destruction.  And as you point out, it isn't the Constitution that's flawed; the problem is that those in power don't obey the law.

I'd like to see this amendment added though:
Interpretation of this Constitution shall be based in the original intent of its authors.  Any judge basing a decision on any other criteria shall be disbarred, and shall serve not less than ten years in a federal prison.

The problem of course is who decides that a decision was made for the wrong reason.  But I think that problem could be solved.

Then of course there's the problem that weapons exist today that did not exist when the 2nd Amendment was written, and the original intent of the authors did not allow for what are now called reasonable restrictions, like laws against owning nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons for example.

So the only real solution is for good and honorable men to be placed on the High Court, like Antonin Scalia for example.  But in today's political climate that doesn't seem likely either.  All this goes to prove something John Adams said:
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Hardwood83:
depserv pretty much nailed it. Laws are a constraint on those inclined to follow them. When the lawlessness extends wholesale to the Govt it gets real ugly, real fast. We all know where we stand currently. 'Updating' the Constitution is meaningless when we ignore &/or violate vast swaths of it already.

Mntnman:
Biological and chemical weapons have existed at least since medieval times, probably longer.

The framers allowed for adjustments to the Constitution. The problem is that nobody is concerned about doing it the legally outlined way provided to do so.

f1fanatic:
Thank you all for commenting. And yes, Depserv nailed it, thank you. The reason I bring it up is that an Article V convention, I believe, has been introduced into the Unicameral and I thought everyone here should be made aware if they weren't already.

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