Question by The RAINMAN: Why doesn’t the congress vote for amendments that get rid of ambiguity?
I don’t understand how congress doesn’t get rid of ambiguity in the constitution. I understand there are differing ideologies, but I fee that it simply leads to arguments in congress that waste time. I’ve heard of the 3/4 vote for an amendment, but why doesn’t congress do it? Ambiguity is what leads our country into arguments that have been raging for 40 years. Is there any way we can get rid of ambiguity in the constitution?
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Answer by Tiffany
Not without an all-out war. Can you imagine trying to fine tune the constitution? Democrats and Republicans would kill eachother.
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Congress cannot amend the constitution. The Constitution is very hard to amend, requiring 75% of the States to vote an amendment.
I would leave it alone. The Founding Fathers knew what they were doing.
The reason is that they can’t get 3/4 of the people in Congress to agree on one version. Then they have to get the people to agree on it too. Amendments are very hard to pass.
We are a country that is built on being vague.
If the constitution had not been written ambiguously it would sound Kinda scary now.
You’d think it would be that easy!
But it pays to be ambiguous because then you can make an argument for whatever side you’re on.
Amendments aren’t easy to pass – remember, the Equal Rights Amendment never even passed. Congress is made up of people with a wide variety of political beliefs.
Please don’t encourage Congress to tinker with the Constitution. It was written by the likes of Jefferson and Franklin. Much more intelligent and patriotic than the bunch we have now!
Supreme Court right now is very CONSERVATIVE with nine
judges that would say *NO WAY* to Amending or changing the
vague constituion..maybe the ACLU would be the people to see
It’s the Congress’s job to argue, they are always wasting our time, we can’t really do anything about that. The 40 year old arguments are not because of Congress, but because of the constituents that wont stfu about stupid ass shit like abortion and other culture war issues. The forefathers knew what they were doing, they weren’t geniuses and they certainly weren’t perfect. But they knew that shit was gonna be like nothing they could fathom so they made it ambigious enough so that we would know how we were suppose to face the problem, but would be able to interpret it based on our modern knowledge.
It is very complicated and would take a long time. I’m sure they are not up for that battle.