Constitutional Convention anyone??

[kelley]

At 01:48 PM 12/13/00 -0500, Chuck0 wrote:
>Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > Michael Perelman wrote:
> >
> > >I would be fearful of doing anything to tamper with the Constitution 
> at this
> > >point.  Any changes are likely to do more than just eliminate the 
> electoral
> > >college.
> >
> > So we're stuck with this creaking 18th century document, the cult
> > around it, and the machinery it spawned forever?
>
>I guess it takes an anarchist to point out the obvious thing: nobody
>alive today had any input into the damn document.

this is problematic as well.  we cannot and do not constantly forge and 
re-forge social contracts. we can't.  it would be, were that demand placed 
upon us, tantamount to a tyranny of its own.

kelley