Is the US Constitution dated?

[ivan]

Mr. Barak, for his part, identified a new constitutional superpower: “Canadian law,” he wrote, “serves as a source of inspiration for many countries around the world.” The new study also suggests that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, adopted in 1982, may now be more influential than its American counterpart.

 

Go Canada! #1 in hockey and #1 in rights and freedoms!

congrats, but i bet you don't have an anti-quartering right!

[Fairweather]

Mr. Barak, for his part, identified a new constitutional superpower: “Canadian law,” he wrote, “serves as a source of inspiration for many countries around the world.” The new study also suggests that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, adopted in 1982, may now be more influential than its American counterpart.

 

Go Canada! #1 in hockey and #1 in rights and freedoms!

 

What good are your rights if your government maintains an absolute monopoly on the means and use of violence?

 

Gotta admit though, Victoria is one of the nicest, safest-feeling cities anywhere. (Vancouver, not so much.)

[Coldfinger]

What good are your rights if your government maintains an absolute monopoly on the means and use of violence?

 

Oh you mean like the right to live in a country free of violence?

[ivan]

What good are your rights if your government maintains an absolute monopoly on the means and use of violence?

 

seems like the basic role of government when it comes to law and order - tribes don't settle disputes and punish offenders, The Man does.

Edited February 8, 2012 by ivan

[tvashtarkatena]

I wasn't aware until now that violence was a basic right.

 

I know self defense is, but its best weapon is the grey goo between your ears.

 

 

[Buckshot]

I'm not sure that every country CAN pattern its self on our Constitution. Thats why their efforts at fair elections always seem to fail; their culture isn't like ours so our constitution won't work for them.

 

Though if we take Americas exceptionalism for granted we will lose it.

[Crux]

Yeah that, and we might lose fair elections too.

 

[Fairweather]

What good are your rights if your government maintains an absolute monopoly on the means and use of violence?

 

Oh you mean like the right to live in a country free of violence?

 

Where does it say that?

[bstach]

Gotta admit though, Victoria is one of the nicest, safest-feeling cities anywhere. (Vancouver, not so much.)

 

Vancouver is consistently named near the top of the list of the world's most livable cities.

[G-spotter]

If you can afford it, that is.

[Pete_H]

And if you like Chinese food. Which I do, by the way.

[tvashtarkatena]

Anyone who actually thinks Vancouver is sketchy should probably limit their vacation travels to Wild Waves and maybe the occasional corn maze.

 

 

[Fairweather]

Anyone who actually thinks Vancouver is sketchy should probably limit their vacation travels to Wild Waves and maybe the occasional corn maze.

 

 

Gotta love these new personal attacks in the post-nasty era. (Try just a little harder.)

 

Vancouver sketchy? No. Just kinda dumpy.

[tvashtarkatena]

Well, it's not Tacoma...

[tvashtarkatena]

I'm not sure that every country CAN pattern its self on our Constitution. Thats why their efforts at fair elections always seem to fail; their culture isn't like ours so our constitution won't work for them.

 

Though if we take Americas exceptionalism for granted we will lose it.

 

LOL