Our flawed Constitution

So what about our fundamentally flawed Constitution?




I agree with President Obama. Our constitution is fundamentally flawed. It was created by man and reflects the specific bias of the time and the overall bias of human history. Self Interest. But, to re-apply a Winston Churchill truism, The American constitution is the worst of it's kind - except for all the others. The beauty of our constitution is how it uses self-interest against itself in order to come to the closest approximation to social justice in the history of the world. And offers a mechinism to (so long as we don't truncate it) get increasingly closer and closer to complete social justice-as close as we'll get this side of heaven.

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