Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agoIf the US got to the point of rewriting or coming up with a new constitution, which minds would be the equivalent of the minds today? To rewrite the whole thing?message-squaremessage-square77linkfedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up123arrow-down1message-squareIf the US got to the point of rewriting or coming up with a new constitution, which minds would be the equivalent of the minds today? To rewrite the whole thing?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square77linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·2 months agoI don’t think that similar mindsets would be a goal. They lived in a world 250 years ago. They owned slaves. They basically owned their wives. What you need are people who actually draw the right conclusions from the mistakes that have been made on those 250 years.
minus-squareDon_Dickle@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoAnd in your opinion in gathering a group of the greatest minds of today who would you include to accomplish those goals?>
I don’t think that similar mindsets would be a goal. They lived in a world 250 years ago. They owned slaves. They basically owned their wives.
What you need are people who actually draw the right conclusions from the mistakes that have been made on those 250 years.
And in your opinion in gathering a group of the greatest minds of today who would you include to accomplish those goals?>
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