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Which is why the US Constitution is both genderless and color-blind. Nowhere in that amended document will you find any reference to specific gender or skin color. The document refers to "individuals", "citizens", or "persons".
The document has also been updated 27 times since it was originally ratified, the most recent amendment was in 1992. If you think it should be updated again, have your Congress critter propose an amendment.
If the USC is so blind to gender why did it take an amendment to grant women the right to vote? Equally depending upon the make up of the SCOTUS African Americans careered from chattel to persons, back to chattel and then "separate but equal" persons, then finally full citizens.
No, one does not think the USC should be ratified again because usually such actions come out of the patrician/progressive class of politics and thus no telling what might come out of a constitutional convention today.
The USC has only been amended thirty-three times. Some did great good, others great harm with Prohibition standing out for the latter. Thus it has become clear to many that the process should be reserved only for the most urgent needs.
Despite how worked up many in this country have gotten over various issues including most recently same sex marriage mob rule did not win the day and thus no amendment to the USC.
Actually, the US Constitution has been amended 27 times, not 33. If you had actually read the document, you would have known that.
He crossed that border with the internment of Japanese Americans and Aleutian Islanders. FDR was a fascist when fascism was all the rage throughout Europe.
If the USC is so blind to gender why did it take an amendment to grant women the right to vote? Equally depending upon the make up of the SCOTUS African Americans careered from chattel to persons, back to chattel and then "separate but equal" persons, then finally full citizens.
No, one does not think the USC should be ratified again because usually such actions come out of the patrician/progressive class of politics and thus no telling what might come out of a constitutional convention today.
Since it is obvious that you have never read the US Constitution, I will inform you that there was absolutely nothing in the US Constitution that prohibited women or blacks from voting - nothing.
Those amendments were added to the US Constitution to prohibit States from barring women and blacks from voting. Since you are undoubtedly completely clueless with regard to basic civics, I will also inform you that States run all elections, not the federal government.
The US Constitution was ratified June 21, 1789. Once ratified there is no need to ratify it again. There are 50+ proposed amendments to the US Constitution currently pending in Congress, and none have any hope of passing with the required two-thirds majority in the foreseeable future.
Since it is obvious that you have never read the US Constitution, I will inform you that there was absolutely nothing in the US Constitution that prohibited women or blacks from voting - nothing.
Those amendments were added to the US Constitution to prohibit States from barring women and blacks from voting. Since you are undoubtedly completely clueless with regard to basic civics, I will also inform you that States run all elections, not the federal government.
The US Constitution was ratified June 21, 1789. Once ratified there is no need to ratify it again. There are 50+ proposed amendments to the US Constitution currently pending in Congress, and none have any hope of passing with the required two-thirds majority in the foreseeable future.
Lolz, semantics. Women didn't vote and blacks didn't vote in any state.
Lolz, semantics. Women didn't vote and blacks didn't vote in any state.
Hardly semantics when a grossly uninformed poster is claiming the US Constitution prohibited women and blacks from voting. It does not, and never did. Or are you that far gone that you are incapable of distinguishing between the US Constitution and State election laws?
Uh; maybe 5 to 10 years ago you'd be right. Not in 2014. China's working age pop is DROPPING in numbers AND the wages there are going out of sight so it's becoming cheaper to start making stuff here in the US.
China has about 500 million people who live in cities and are adopting the kind of lifestyle we might be familiar. 900 million Chinese people still live and work on farms that haven't changed all that much from what it was like 100 years ago before Chinese industrialization began in earnest . So China has a long ways to go in modernizing and industrializing its vast nation. Chinese industry often uses hand labor i,e assemblers, seamstresses, welders and supply clerks like our factories did in the 1940-50s before we automated such processes in factories. If wages continue to go up, Chinese management and engineers will adopt the same processes introduced in American factories since the 1960s to stay competitive. They know the drill because several hundred thousand Chinese senior managers and engineers came to America and studied all aspects of mamgement and technology in our finest universities. Now putting a lot of people out of work sue to automation is a bigger problem for China because while we have tens os millions of unemployed they may have several hundred million.
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