If the Constitution is not a "flawed" document, why did its authors allow for...

[pastor of muppets]

...ammendments? Is it not flawed because black people only count as 3/5th of a person in the original document?

Or did our founders maybe realize that with time, social attitudes would change, that the country would evolve and that without changes being made, our society would become stagnant?
The last amendment ratified was in the '92. It "prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of the Congress from taking effect until the beginning of the next set of terms of office for Representatives."

 

[dis_orient_ed]

Yes, there is a flaw in the ointment.

"Waiter, what is this flaw doing in my Constitution?"
"The backstroke."

 

[Resistance]

Nothing ever created by men is flawless.

 

[yutsnark]

Of course it's flawed. Who would say otherwise?

 

[whimsy]

You forget - the original version, only white males who owned land could vote.

 

[Jane M]

I believe that Our Constitution is Precious. Sure there are some problems - like it being too easy to change it, especially for Monsters like Obama - Who HATES IT!

Peace to All and God Bless! Jane.

 

[Shovel Ready]

If Obama is not willing to abide by the Constitution, as amended, then the azzhole needs to get the hell out of the White House.

 

[Mrs. C]

Everything mankind does is flawed. They were reasonable people. But the left wants to change EVERYTHING. This is the greatest flaw of all.

 

[Sound_of_the_silenced]

When was the last Amendment ratified? The Constitution does allow for amendments, but the government would rather ignore it or find a loop hole than to bother trying to pass a new one.

 

[justgoodfolk]

Because they, the authors, were commie liberals and unfortunately there was no Glen Beck around at the time nor Rush Limbaugh to stop them. Luckily we have Fox now to protect us all.

"Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment... laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind... as that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, institutions must advance also, to keep pace with the times.... We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain forever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
Thomas Jefferson