If you had to write a new constitution for your country, what sort of things would you include in it that aren't currently in there?

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles If you had to write a new constitution for your country, what sort of things would you include in it that aren't currently in there?

hmmm... "we" before "I".. and then democracy will work

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"Be excellent to one another"

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On "Be excellent to one another"

"Party on Dudes"

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN I have 3 hobbies: gaming, DJing & correcting maladjusted fools on the internet.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN Yeah, I’d like to know what horrible, scarring incident in your childhood turned you into such an ignorant, intellectual-hating philistine?

The Bill And Ted of Rights lololol

Ok, that was lame as fuck.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On The Bill And Ted of Rights

I chuckled.

My friends and I actually made a facebook group for our honkey friends called, "Caucasia."

Inside jokes have been edited out

*High School Students May Love Their Teachers Freely

*You may defecate on your neighbor's lawn for a nominal fee.
Amendment I. Fee is proportionate to form, size and mass of defecation.

*The Rivers of Caucasia will run with Rockstar.

*Women, by law, must be void of all clothing while living in, or passing through Caucasia.

*Naruto is outlawed. Worst anime ever.

*Our national anthem, "Suck My Dick, This is Caucasia!", will be performed by Dethklok.

*Gays? Cast them into the pits.

*Ridiculous family names, such as VanDuynhoven, will be outlawed and replaced by more fitting family names for a Caucasian, such as "Beefkill" or "Dickpuncher."

*The main exports of Caucasia are Meat Cleavers and Spaghetti-O's.

*The official language of Caucasia is Jive.

*All things French are outlawed due to sucking.
Amendment II. The following are exceptions:
-Crepes
-Croissants
-French Silk Pie
-Melissa Theuriau

*It is mandatory that everyday life in Caucasia should mimic the movies Ronin, Versus, 300, Reservoir Dogs and/or Sin City.

If I were to conjure up visions of a land named Caucasia, those would be the rules I would associate with it as well.

Where's the beer n' Nascar though?

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mandatory marihuana

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1. Electric Chair != Cruel and Unusual punishment.
2. Al Sharpton required to end life as Secretary of Jestering. Forced to fight for rights of Mexico and Native Americans to take back land stolen from Da Whitey.

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Laws enshrined in a static document are not necessarily a fantastic idea imo. Either you trust your citizens to vote in a government that will do the right thing and vote out a government NOT doing the right thing, or you don’t.

The constitution of australia provides a guide for which level of government has the power to legislate over which area of law, but it does not give the citizens of the country any specific "rights", other than say, when and how elections are to be held, as well as how a government is to be made up.

This way we're not beholden to antiquated notions that allow assault rifles to be sold, and yet somehow we don’t have a patriot act either

And I'd love to know exactly what the "separation of church and state" provision has actually achieved in the US. Coz from where im standing, its "fuck all".

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN ...and yet somehow we don’t have a patriot act either

That may be because Australia never became a "superpower." I think that when a country becomes the top dog militarily, it inevitably starts getting paranoid about people taking it down. This is why I sometimes wish I lived in a less powerful country.

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And I'd love to know exactly what the "separation of church and state" provision has actually achieved in the US. Coz from where im standing, its "fuck all".

Probably because the language is so non-specific, and the founders didn't even intend "separation of church and state" to cover all levels of government.

[Whether they should have intended that is another question; my answer is "yes."]