User blog comment:Rocket Engineer/On the U.S. Constitution/@comment-25330335-20170613012134

First, a warning to all who enter here: If this topic gets outside this blog post, there will be many merciless and swift weeklong bans. Period. For the time I will allow this to stew.

What If I said the constitution was a product of its times. For example, Jefferson put in the bit about not being allowed to be president if you weren't born here, just so that Alexander Hamilton couldn't become president (I know that's probably the most known factoid, but whatever). I would also claim that the second ammendment is also a product of a time when guys going out to a field and shooting each other was an honor thing. Anymore, I don't think it's so relevant, just dangerous.

Also, just like any other human creation, it has its flaws. For example, the current prison system. There is one little thing in the constitution that allows people to be enslaved if they are in prison. The constitution basically says in that bit that prisoners don't have rights. Did anyone know that the US is home to 5% of the world population? But out of the worlds prison population (the total amount of humanity that is currently imprisoned), the US claims 25%. Something to think about there.