The Glade 4.0

Giving only landowners the vote could work, but you would have to have some kind of equality provisions to prevent abuses, for example laws that state anyone not enfranchised has to pay 25% extra income tax, or triples prison sentences for the disenfranchised, or other things of that nature.

Giving only landowners the vote could work, but you would have to have some kind of equality provisions to prevent abuses, for example laws that state anyone not enfranchised has to pay 25% extra income tax, or triples prison sentences for the disenfranchised, or other things of that nature.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

No, it's not sarcasm. You really expect the Constitution to protect against this? Seriously? First, put aside for a second that the enfranchised could simply amend it to discriminate against the disenfranchised as much as they damn well please. Then realize that under the current Constitution, we've passed punitive taxes on executives for earning too much money and have a legal system that gives black people prison sentences that are 3-4 times longer than the sentences given to whites and asians for the same crimes.

Our current constitution is a piece of **** that isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

It needs to be rewritten.

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

Why don't we start a glade constitutional convention where we write up a new Constitution for the US? We get a thread for the people considered writers and then agree on the rules of passing? Could be a fun exercise and give us a glimpse of what the Founders actually went through.

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

This is the concept that drove a bunch a ragtag men too unimportant to vote to defeat the greatest army of their age.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

You should check up on your history. That said, the Founders knew universal suffrage was problematic. The issues of universal suffrage are neither knew nor unknown.

Diamondeye:

Literacy is a measure of trained reasoning, particularly inference and deduction. There are sentences I could write that while perfectly intelligible, you would now understand. I'm absolutely certain that the reverse is true as well. Literacy is not the ability to recognize words as they appear in written format. It is goes far beyond that.

What makes you more fit to rule than me? Simply because I choose to rent because of my situation?

This contry was founded on the concept on of No taxation without representation. Yes it's taking us a couple of centuries to realize "Yes that applies to those people who I feel are inferior to me too. ". However it is what made us once great

This is the climate where a college dropout can work smart and become the riches man on the planet, and his partner the second.

This is the concept that drove a bunch a ragtag men too unimportant to vote to defeat the greatest army of their age.

I could go on all day if needed

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

There are ways to fix that without creating a peerage. Also I've never met someone who doesn't pay any taxes at all. Maybe some who get more out than they pay in though

Taskiss:

Yup, but that's what happens when I change my thought mid sentence and forget to correct myself.

Is this even possible? Can Pelosi really pass the bill by only voting on the amendments to it?

When Republicans took power in 1995, they soon lost their aversion to self-executing rules [a device used by the House Rules Committee to automatically attach amendments to bills on the floor without a separate debate or vote] and proceeded to set new records under Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). There were 38 and 52 self-executing rules in the 104th and 105th Congresses (1995-1998), making up 25 percent and 35 percent of all rules, respectively. Under Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) there were 40, 42 and 30 self-executing rules in the 106th, 107th and 108th Congresses (22 percent, 37 percent and 22 percent, respectively). Thus far in the 109th Congress, self-executing rules make up about 16 percent of all rules.

Khross I can circumvent your property rule by selling square inches of real estate, square centimeters, or whatever fine portion I or any other person would wish to in order to grant voting rights.

Or I could form a communal ownership agreement with anyone who signs up on a website and pays a yearly "maintenance" fee.

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

In what state can you have a communal ownership?