• nxdefiant@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    We need to add Rule Zero to the constitution: All rules will be submissive to the rules that preceded them, excepting amendments abolishing them.

    Bam, free speech is now in effect under all contexts. Also, you can carry a gun on the senate floor and in the oval office. That would probably get a gun amendment passed real fast

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Bam, free speech is now in effect under all contexts

      I hope you realize that the First Amendment to the Constitution was ratified 3 years after the part of the Constitution that I’m describing, which is in Article I, before the amendments.

    • CoderKat@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Eh, I don’t think chronological order is the right order for this. That makes historically older rules have priority over newer ones even if they’re outdated. The second amendment is the obvious example of amendments being outdated. Even if you are all for gun rights, I don’t think you can argue that the amendment was written with modern weaponry in mind (and indeed, nobody argues that the average person should be allowed to own a fully functional tank).

      And coming up with a better priority list would be impossible in the current political hurricane, as nobody would agree on the ordering.