Running out of reality to blame, they got to make stories.

  • @goferking0
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    14 months ago

    Each generation is as independent as the one preceding, as that was of all which had gone before. It has then, like them, a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its own happiness; consequently, to accommodate to the circumstances in which it finds itself, that received from its predecessors; and it is for the peace and good of mankind, that a solemn opportunity of doing this every nineteen or twenty years, should be provided by the constitution; so that it may be handed on, with periodical repairs, from generation to generation, to the end of time, if anything human can so long endure.

    https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/jefferson-memorial-education-each-new-generation.htm

    • @Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
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      34 months ago

      Nice quote, I’m glad you agree with me that change is good and that there is a mechanism to change the constitution. It is of course called an amendment.

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      • @goferking0
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        -14 months ago

        No it means replacement not amending. Amending is just addition not updating.