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In reply to the discussion: Should and could there be another election before 2020 if election was hacked? [View all]suston96
(4,175 posts).....was established by the founders with a very skeletal framework and presented to the states for ratification.
Only nine states were needed for ratification and so it happened. Easy enough. Not gonna happen again.
Chief Justice John Marshall said around 1820 that the constitution belonged to its authors, the people, who could do as they pleased with it including tearing it up and starting over again.
The present built in amendment process is ponderous and prohibitive and thus the government the new constitution created has few if any correction mechanisms when assaults such as electoral fraud are attempted.
Leaving the states in charge of times, places, and manner of elections was a naive notion as was the expectation that partisan politics would not have politically destructive effects on both federal and state constitutionally scheduled elections.
The presently prescribed amendment process does not and will not work. Time to gather the people into functionally organized meetings with the purpose of producing a really effective framing document that will yield a nearly flawless republican government that cannot be easily corrupted by partisanism fueled by wealth and greed.
We now have historical evidence how not to do it.
We must try again.