Many people invoke the USC to hammer home a point. Many more swear an oath to support and defend the USC. There is a conventional reverence for the USC. And let us not forget a cororollary document that is really a preview of the USC..... that would be the Declaration of Independence. *DOI*
So are these two documents still relevant ? Are they over hyped spaghetti text written by old farts from the past ? Can we just skip ahead to modern constitutions that promise a shining world flowing with lots of goodies ? Nope ! I am going to argue that while flawed ; these two documents are the greatest roadmap to human triumph that have written to date.
WHY ?
Why were these two documents written ? Why did some guys in the late 1700s cook up the the DOI and USC ? Were they control freaks ? Did they think they were special ? Did they suffer from bloated egos ? Hubris ? Why did they do it ? Creating the DOI was certainly dangerous. The authors were painting a target on their backs that the British king and soldiers would be happy put some bullets into. So why did they do it ?
2013m05d26 update
Here is a great update to what the USC was intended to mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyeUuNRC2Mo
Tom Woods has many great videos
My critique
History is nice stuff ...... *but* The USC talks about natural rights.... No one has natural rights... Natural rights would have to come from God...... ( It is very unlikely there is a god ) Rights have to be articulated and then they have to be fought for and then maintained. As man has become more productive and robots have taken over banal tasks, *men* have had the opportunity to develop in the direction of sophoncy.
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