Stephen wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Sabrina Kilian <ski### [at] vtedu> wrote:
>>> As it should be, but states do it for a variety of reasons. The easiest
>>> to understand is that individual laws can not contradict the
>>> constitution, but amendments to it can. So, should the government want
>>> to push through a law that they know would violate certain rights set
>>> out in the constitution, and have voting power to get it done, an
>>> amendment is the better way to go.
>>
>>   Doesn't that make the whole point of having a constitution kind of
>> moot?
>>
>>   "We don't like this part of the constitution. No problem, we'll just
>> add
>> an amendment which changes it." So what's the point in having a
>> constitution
>> in the first place?
>>
> 
> Which is probably one of the reasons why there was so much fuss about an

> written one. </smugness>
> 

Don't make us come spread democracy.

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