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The Constitution spells out who is eligible to run for President, and does not say criminals are ineligible. It's as simple as that.
I do find it odd that you guys put so much emphasis on a document written in a time nothing like today.
Like surely it should evolve, but I can see how that would go right now so it’s probably for the best.
We do amend the Constitution from time to time, but it takes a 2/3 vote in both houses of Congress, plus ratification by 3/4 of states. so it's quite a high bar.
Just because an idea is old, doesn't mean its a bad idea. And we do have mechanisms for modifying the constitution. We just don't do it often because it requires a lot of agreement.
I think we have more enlightened and more informed views now than 270 years ago is alls I’m saying.
Just the right to bare arms is such an example. Weapons are completely different these days.
I exercise the right to bare arms as often as possible, and my farmer's tan is proof of that.
That's the problem. No people ever think they're the unenlightened ones. Society changes but not always for the better.
The Constitution is a safety rail to protect us from ourselves.
I think we have more enlightened and more informed views now than 270 years ago is alls I’m saying.
Bruh with literally every country on the planet turning more fascist by the day that's a bold statement to make
I mean it’s like y’all are forgetting that slavery was well more prevalent in the western world, although there could be an argument for wage slavery today.
The fact that being homosexual, trans, or whatever else was condemned and you would go to prison for such things.
The world today is fucked, but it was a lot more fucked a couple of hundred years ago.
Guess what stopped slavery in the US, legally? A Constitutional amendment.
We don't have parliamentary supremacy. What we have is what we have. A rough equivalent is that (assuming you're a UK citizen) the Lords could still veto bills and the Commons couldn't force the issue.
Yeah it's because Americans are fucking terrible at governing.
The vast, vast majority of Americans do not care about their elected officials. Most do not even know who they are, and just vote based on party affiliation or don't vote at all. Our government structure also fundamentally doesn't work, and we would be far better served adopting a parliamentary system like the rest of the developed world, but nobody cares enough to do anything. Our courts are corrupt thanks to Donald Trump, gerrymandering means our elections are hardly fair, the list goes on.
America has an apathetic government that accomplishes very little and is easily captured by hostile forces because it is exactly the level of government Americans are willing to put in the effort for.
We do too trust me