Has the Constitution been flushed down the toilet? Is it time for a new declaration of independence?

Answer 1

No. It's time for our elected leaders, bureaucratic officials and judicial representatives to knuckle under and respect, obey and enforce our Constitutional law.
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and their war-mongering friends deserve a special oil-soaked, blood-stained corner of Hell where they can rot eternally along with:
535 members of the most arrogant, incompetent, wicked, contemptible, cowardly, corrupt Republican-led Congress in U.S. history that stood by and watched Bush run rip shod over our Constitution
-AND-
535 members of the most arrogant, incompetent, wicked, contemptible, cowardly corrupt Democratic-led Congress in U.S. history that promised to end this immoral 'war' if elected, and - to date - have done nothing to honor that promise.
MAY GOD DAMN THEM ALL!!!

Answer 2

I like the declaration as it is .
And I like the Bill of rights and I guess women should vote .

What we need to do is apply our rights under our constitution instead of relying on laws to micro manage everything .

Did you see the guy in the mall snap a picture under a girls dress .

They should strap has sack to a table and bring out a hammer , have a surgeon standing by and ask him what he is doing with them and tell us the names of those you are sharing this with . That girl deserves every single photo deleted to say the least .
Web sights that do nothing except promote this kind of activity need to be shut down .
Whats between your legs is certainly private and your constitutional rights have been violated .
Cut offf a finger to start with .
If looking down at your hand is not enough of a reminder then I am sorry but a tattoo across the forehead is needed and for their face to be striped so everyone can keep an eye on you .

Spending billions of dollars to keep people in prison is not the answer .

A flight over the antartic is needed routinely to drop off prisoners Let them dig in and supply them with food and a power supply to warm them .

Mix it up and send women also . Let these folks make a society for themselves in a barren waste land free of guards and rules and place a few cameras around and use the revenues from the show to pay for it all .

Answer 3

I think unity is a prerequisite to declaring anything like that. There's not a lot of unity to go around right now, if you know what I'm saying. We still disagree as to who we think is really responsible for diverting us from our Constitution. A lot of us have very different interpretations of what the document really meant.

Overall, times are not desperate enough for us to unify and demand change. Once we realize our differences are systemic rather than ideologic, we'll be back on a good path.

Answer 4

The constitution is alive and well and needs all of our support to stay that way. With presidential candidate Hillery Clinton expressing her desire to do away with the Bill of Rights (right here on Yahoo! Answers) and attacks by the Bush adminstation we should be prepared to defend our constitution but it is going to last. It has seen worse times and withstood. We are all Americans and despite differences we all pretty much want the same things.

Answer 5

I dont know why you would ask this question. It isn't time for a new constitution nor do I ever see one being written. I do believe though that it is time for the Government to adhere more strictly to the constitution.

Answer 6

No, but it is time to demand that congress return to and protect the Constitution.

Answer 7

Well, Senator Reid and his gaggle of fellow US Senators pretty much flushed and ignored the 1st Amendment when they, in their official capacity, attempted to silence and chastise a private citizen.

Answer 8

The Constitution is still intact and working well.

Just because it doesn't go your way doesn't mean it is over.

Answer 9

he*l yes.

we need to follow it! jeze

Answer 10

I think the original still holds true today.

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.