The founders wrote a constitution consistent with the social conditions at the time. Obviously, they believed that from time to time, as the world changed, there would be a need to amend the document. It wasn't long before what they believed was "self-evident" needed a definite mention to clarify with certainty what was intended. Enter the first amendment.
Since the whole impetus behind the revolution was to secure the free exercise of speech and religion, I'm sure they felt no need to specify that. When they decided to add this guarantee, "religion" was basically western and Christian. We have reached a time in history where we urgently need a definition of religion which will protect us from evils disguised as, or hidden, in religious beliefs. A system which believes, and acts out, that all non-believers should be killed should not be classified as a "religion".
Another instance of common belief at the time, that life began at conception, did not get a mention because to them, it seemed an unnecessary instruction. Since that time, those who take advantage of every technicality to distort the constitution have decided that "life" begins in the middle of a process rather than the beginning. It is past time that an amendment be added that would specify what the founders believed, and everyone understood, that is that "life" does begin at conception and that, that life enjoys all the rights of the constitution.
Again, because no one would have dreamed, at that time, that a marriage was anything but the union of a man and a woman, they saw no need to incorporate that definition.
In each of these cases, any controversy should be resolved by a decision which defaults to the understanding of these conditions at the time they were written. Arriving at controversial conclusions based upon modern standards without amendments is wrong because they rest upon assumptions.
Since the whole impetus behind the revolution was to secure the free exercise of speech and religion, I'm sure they felt no need to specify that. When they decided to add this guarantee, "religion" was basically western and Christian. We have reached a time in history where we urgently need a definition of religion which will protect us from evils disguised as, or hidden, in religious beliefs. A system which believes, and acts out, that all non-believers should be killed should not be classified as a "religion".
Another instance of common belief at the time, that life began at conception, did not get a mention because to them, it seemed an unnecessary instruction. Since that time, those who take advantage of every technicality to distort the constitution have decided that "life" begins in the middle of a process rather than the beginning. It is past time that an amendment be added that would specify what the founders believed, and everyone understood, that is that "life" does begin at conception and that, that life enjoys all the rights of the constitution.
Again, because no one would have dreamed, at that time, that a marriage was anything but the union of a man and a woman, they saw no need to incorporate that definition.
In each of these cases, any controversy should be resolved by a decision which defaults to the understanding of these conditions at the time they were written. Arriving at controversial conclusions based upon modern standards without amendments is wrong because they rest upon assumptions.
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