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Created with Fabric.js 1.4.5 The Constitution in the Modern Day: Living or Dead? double click to changethis text! Drag a cornerto scale proportionally. The argument of whether or not the Constitution is still useful in protecting our freedoms and liberties has come under immense scrutiny. As the political game-field invariably changes, so does the question of whether a 236 year old document still provides the same amount of guiding and protecting in our contemporary government. Two schools of thought have begun to emerge: the right, in favor of a "Strict Constructionist," and the left, arguing its outdated-ness and ineffectiveness to bring about meaningful legislation in the modern day. -Language is outdated and far too ambiguous to be adapted to modern day problems; it's usefullness only stretches so far, when one considers how arcane of a document it is. Left Arguments: -"Why, ask many on the Left, should modern American society be restricted by the judgments of a small group of propertied white men many of them slaveholders who died two centuries ago?" -“Our obsession with the Constitution has saddled us with a dysfunctional political system, kept us fromdebating the merits of divisive issues and inflamed our public discourse. Instead of arguing about what is to be done, we argue about what James Madison might have wanted done 225 years ago. Right Arguments: -Through its Bill of Rights, the Constitution guarantees freedoms such as speech, religion and assembly, it mandates fair trials, it outlaws slavery and it allows citizens to bear arms -“With only limited changes, the Constitution has overseen our growth from weak and scattered colonies and taken us safely through crises that might have broken other nations...the Constitution is the anchor." -"In reality, it is because of the government established by the U.S. Constitution that a greater number of the worlds peoples have had access to more substantial individual freedoms than ever before within the history of humankind."
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