There are many countries that have functioning constitutions that are regularly revised.

It’s not impossible for the USA to get there one day.

stevenwoo 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We still haven't fixed things caused by putting chattel slavery into the Constitution almost 150 years after a civil war.

	▲	pavlov 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Well, that's why I wrote "not impossible" rather than "likely"... These things can be fixed even though it's difficult. Sometimes the pressure just boils over. Americans are a lot more defeatist about their politics than in many other democratic countries.
	▲	ceejayoz 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Hell, we deliberately left it in. > Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

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bdangubic 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

it is impossible and it is great that it is impossible because you need one party to basically run everything at the federal level and vast majority at the state level which means that any changes to the constitution would be heavily politically motivated to one side of the isle.

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pavlov 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Looking at the results, it's obviously not great that there's no reasonable process to update the constitution. It's the most dysfunctional democracy in the West.

Change that seems inevitable in retrospect often feels like a surprise in the moment. France its on its fifth republic. A second American republic is not impossible.

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fuzzfactor 6 hours ago | parent [-]

>there's no reasonable process to update the constitution.

Au contraire, a Constitutional Convention of the states to define the way they can all agree to be united.

Just like the first time.

There weren't that many states back then anyway.

	▲	bdangubic 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You talking theoretically or in practice. Theoretically we could have Constitutional Convention of the states to define the way they can "all" agree to be united (just like the first time). In practice there is a higher chance of me marrying Beyonce