• spujb@lemmy.cafe
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    5 months ago

    fair enough. better than waiting centuries and still having slavery codified 150 years after we did a whole civil war about things.

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      5 months ago

      Jefferson wrote in a letter at the time that each new generation has a right to choose for itself “the form of government it believes most promotive of its own happiness.” That every 20 years, the constitution should be handed off to the next generation to amend and repair as they see fit.