[jen729w]

> Constitutional changes

Y'all have proven how worthless that piece of paper is.

[pavlov]

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]

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

[bdangubic]

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.

[zeroonetwothree]

Doesn’t this decision exactly prove the opposite?

[maxwell]

What piece of paper is worth more to you?

[jen729w]

The difference with many other countries -- I'm Australian -- is that we don't constantly bang on about how glorious our constitution is and how it's the be-all end-all. We just get on with it.

And I wouldn't mind if the American constitution did provide all of these tremendous benefits that everyone bangs on about all the time. That'd be great! But it turns out nobody's really tested that, until now.

And you get an F, my friend. Hard fail.