Can we keep America and send them to Canada?
2007-01-11 14:45:08 · 11 answers · asked by WJ 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
if you mean send demoncrats to canada im all for it....
2007-01-11 14:50:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
The need to revise the constitution was foreseen by the people who wrote the Constitution as they provided to a process to do so by outline the process for amending it. The first major revision was the Bill of Rights. Other important amendments abolished slavery and guaranteed equal protection under the law.
The amendment process is arduous and the constitution can only be amended by a 2/3 vote in Congress and approval by 3/4 of the states.
In recent years some Republicans have proposed changing the constitution by adding a amendment banning abortion, banning gay marriage or banning flag burning.
I am not aware of any Democrats trying to make any amendments in the recent past. I am aware, however of the Bush administration violating it in the recent past.
So your first statement is wrong and your second is wrong headed.
2007-01-11 23:01:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
If it's true that the Dems want to revise it, than so do the Republicans. Both sides as of late have been interpreting things in different ways, and in some cases have been seeking to change it. It is foolish to believe that it is only on party that is seeking to change the way you live, you just have to decide which changes are better for everyones interests.
2007-01-11 22:52:06 · answer #3 · answered by joecool123_us 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Dude, what the heck are you talking about? It's the Repugnicans that want to revise the Constitution so gay people can't have civil/equal rights. There haven't been any proposals by Democrats to revise the Constitution.
2007-01-11 22:52:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
You have got it backwards,as you so often do.
George W. Bush's presidency is another era of overreaction at the expense of constitutional rights, but the prospects for a quick correction are not auspicious. Nothing has helped end earlier bouts of repression so much as the fact that the wars themselves came to a close, and nothing has so exposed our liberties to indefinite jeopardy as the conception of a "war on terrorism" with no end.
The president claims an inherent power to imprison American citizens whom he has determined to be this country's enemies without obtaining a warrant, letting them hear the charges against them, or following other safeguards against wrongful punishment guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Under his administration, the government has engaged in inhumane treatment of prisoners that amounts to torture — and when Congress passed legislation to ban such treatment, he declared he would simply interpret the law his own way. Although the Constitution says treaties are the "supreme law of the land," the president has abrogated them on his own. And, we now know, he ordered a secret program of electronic surveillance of Americans without court warrants.
But there is something more dangerous than any of these specific abuses and usurpations, and that is the theory of inherent powers that Bush invokes to justify most of these actions and the possibility of its being effectively institutionalized by a meek Congress and, worst of all, by a deferential Supreme Court.
2007-01-11 22:52:08 · answer #5 · answered by dstr 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋
It's hard to blame Republicans in general, but the Bush administration is the first in our history to use every tool in it's power to circumvent, defy and destroy our Constitution. And unfortunately, we can't send Bush to Canada because the Canadians would send him right back!
2007-01-11 22:54:59 · answer #6 · answered by worldinspector 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
No, America is about diversity. All people contribute to America's greatness despite difference of opinions.
2007-01-11 23:02:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'm not so worried about the republicans or democrats changing the constitution. I'm worried about the courts. Find me anyplace in the constitution that has the phrase separation of church and state. That was from a letter by Thomas Jefferson.
2007-01-11 23:01:28 · answer #8 · answered by cliffg8 2 · 3⤊ 4⤋
YES! Please send Republicans to Canada, where they also hate America. Canadians and Republicans will then, both hate America.
2007-01-11 23:08:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
you have it the other way around. Try reading it. you'll be shocked at how LIBERAL it is.
If you don't' want to read all of it, try just the bill of rights.
2007-01-11 22:50:59 · answer #10 · answered by The Big Box 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋