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Start here: https://www.congress.gov/constitution-annotated/

Ugh, American Exceptionalism rears its ugly head yet again.

Your constitution is not the epitome of justice or democratic ideals, and is in fact deeply flawed on a fundamental level.

and is in fact deeply flawed on a fundamental level.

I can accept that it has flaws, but on the fundamental level? It seems pretty solid at that level. The creators thought through the problems and difficulties of government more deeply than most.

It's debatable whether this is a "fundamental" flaw, but the American Consitution is basically a set of procedural rules of the game. Civil rights are an afterthought.

Most modern constitutions also need all the procedures, of course, but they put certain "inalienable rights" square in the middle of it all. The procedures are merely there to support those rights.

Different times, different mindset.

The assumption of the time was that it was common-sense that the Constitution was a whitelist, not a blacklist. There was pushback against having an enumerated Bill of Rights because then there would be a whitelist of rights, and the Founders feared this would mean that they'd miss something and in the future their government would become oppressive.

Hilariously ironic how things turned out instead.

No it is not. There are many improvements that could be made to our system, but our reverence for the founding fathers makes that very difficult.

Yes, America is exceptional insofar as every other place is currently less exceptional.

Oh the irony.

I'm not a citizen of the United States nor do I have particular sympathy for their constitution.

What about those of us who aren't US citizens? SOOL?

Use the similar document for $COUNTRYOFCHOICE

OK, but there are lots of them, and they're all hard on foreigners.

Use the Bible. That's something a third of the world agrees on, and the whole west is founded upon it.

But seriously, murder being bad is pretty much a human moral universal. You'll find that basic idea wherever and whenever you look (+/- various caveats).

> Use the Bible. That's something a third of the world agrees on, and the whole west is founded upon it.

http://www.haaretz.com/grounds-for-disbelief-1.10757

Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus. Sorry, that authority is impeached.

I am not arguing that murder is OK. But I do suspect that Paul Le Roux is being railroaded. I also suspect that Barack Obama, who clearly has far more blood on his hands, will never face trial.

Thanks Obama!

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