The Constitution Memorial Day of September 17 is the 225th anniversary of document preparation in China. The core of this temporary document was a revision of 27 passed only at that time.
According to Tom Ginsberg, a law professor at the University of Chicago who studies and writes the constitution around the world, "Most constitutions die at very young age and are often replaced, which is very fragile According to his research, "The average life expectancy of the Constitution is 19 years
Why is the US Constitution proved to be so durable? Many Americans do not think that its length and principle are relatively short. According to Ginsberg's investigation, the more detailed constitution, such as the Indian constitution of 1950 and twenty-five times the length of the US Constitution of the longest 117,000 words in the world, proved more successful.
The government sometimes goes back to modifying their founding documents and updating them to adapt to a changing society. After the economic crisis of 2008, Iceland decided to re-establish the new Constitution. (The previous article was written in 1944.) And as a novel movement, this document was created through ideas and suggestions from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr. The Constitutional Council reviewed all the ideas and drafted the document basically on the Internet. It was approved in Iceland Parliament in 2011.
In the United States, the constitution was amended when governments and citizens recognized a wide range of problems, or due to changes in movement. This is not an easy process. Usually Congress proposes modifications that must be approved by the House and the two thirds of the Senate. Thereafter, three quarters of the state's parliament must sign an agreement. Since the Bill of Rights, Congress approved 23 revisions and only 17 were approved.
Recently, the New York Times asked scholars: Do you omit, add or clarify if you write the American Constitution today? Their idea is to admit that naturalized citizens become president (Article 2, paragraph 2), impose a period restriction on federal judges (Article 3 paragraph 1), "cruel and abnormal punishment Clarifying something (the eighth amendment) It is even easier to revise the Constitution (Article 5)
Why do you think the Constitution has endured? Do you change either the provision or modification of the constitution? Do you take it out? How do you see the process of revising the constitution? Do you think that you should become the next Constitutional amendment? How do you think you are using social media to change the Constitution? Let 's join the discussion.
• Investigate whether the current constitution includes things related to concerns. If so, does the new constitution include the same term or do you recommend changing? If you propose change, what is the problem, what is the alternative, how to fix it? If your proposal is to hold an existing term, what are the concerns and why the existing term is the best? It is often said that the South African Constitutional Council received two million entries. In practice, however, the signature of the card and the petition are considered submitted. These submissions were not as serious as the more formal proposals for the author's case, only about 13,000.
Why do you think the Constitution has endured? Do you change either the provision or modification of the constitution? Do you take it out? How do you see the process of revising the constitution? Do you think that you should become the next Constitutional amendment? How do you think you are using social media to change the Constitution? Let 's join the discussion.
They said they want a fundamental and fundamental change and want to make a constitutional practice to rewrite us. The Constitution makes it more friendly to business and injects religious and ideological elements. "Republicans are aware that they are ethnic minorities rather than the Democratic Party and the Independents.In order to strengthen this system they have done various forms of cheating including voter suppression and molecular control However, this situation is aimed at affecting the voters themselves, spreading the way to transfer the state to a single party through the Constitutional Council.