Quote Originally Posted by steelish View Post
As denu said, Amendments are part of the constitution once approved. Also - amendments that support freedom are a good thing, such as the amendments you mention.
I guess that's right, and I for one have no quarrel with it. However, an amended consitution is not the constitution "as written", which is what the twisted wingnut who wrote the diatribe against your government at the top of this thread said, but, obviously, didn't mean.

Quote Originally Posted by Bren122 View Post
The post-modernist trendies of the left want to redraw the political landscape by modernising or introducing a Bill of Rights that set out the individual's obligations to the state and its members while doing away with those freedoms of choice that are inconvenient to the state. Such a document, far from reflecting the Rights of Man, are seeking to proscribe the model citizen and turning government from the servant of the people into the arbitor of the common good.
I suppose a right-winger would say that, wouldn't he?

Quote Originally Posted by steelish View Post
A few bad apples in a barrel is understandable, but when almost the entire barrel is bad, it's crushing.
When there are only a few fresh apples left in the barrel, they have lost control of the barrel, and it now belongs to the ripe ones. Thus, from colonies to republic and from republic to an Islamic society founded on justice and benevolence if the people so wish, and no piece of paper can stop that.

Now, where's that cider?