Constitutional Convention anyone??

[kelley]

At 01:48 PM 12/13/00 -0500, Eric Beck wrote:
>Jordan Hayes wrote:
>
> >Doug writes:
> >
> >> So we're stuck with this creaking 18th century document, the cult
> >> around it, and the machinery it spawned forever?
> >
> >What's likely to be better?
>
>Something that recognizes freedom of speech, the right to assemble, the
>right to vote, etc.--or, to put it in a way dear to you, the right to carry
>a weep-on--as ours because we are human, not as privileges bestowed upon us
>by the prerogatives of some Great Men?... Or something like that.
>
>Eric

i think that view still trips up.  that is, we come to think of rights as 
something we simply have, rather than as something we have to forge through 
vigilance and constant struggle.

kelley