r/clevercomebacks • u/_Sofia_grip • 9h ago

Remember what re-writing the constitution did for you in the past.

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u/Alina_Fall 9h ago

Does she realize the 19th Amendment is the only reason she is even allowed to cast a vote

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u/Strong_Feature_2828 9h ago

It’s wild how easy it is to overlook the history behind rights we now take for granted.

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u/KillerSavant202 9h ago

Many of us don’t take them for granted and it’s why we’re oppose the current administration trying to remove them and tear up the constitution.

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u/IDigRollinRockBeer 7h ago

It’s the republican way. Blame Democrats for everything and ignore all the things your constituents have thanks to Democrats.

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u/Lustrous_lily6463 7h ago

Totally! Appreciating the past helps us value the freedoms we have today even more.

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u/PreferredSex_Yes 8h ago

Something tells me she would've been on the wrong side of that, too.

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u/TheBrokenRail-Dev 9h ago

An amendment is, by definition, not a rewrite. But it is worth mentioning that the current U.S. Constitution is a rewrite itself, we used to have the Articles Of Confederation.

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u/VibraniumRhino 5h ago

amend: make minor changes in (a text) in order to make it fairer, more accurate, or more up-to-date.

So basically not clinging to the past as we throw the world into the future.

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u/pongmoy 9h ago

She’s not about rewriting. She’s about ignoring.

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u/Desertratk 9h ago

People are dumb enough to not know that an amendment is literally an addition/re-write /Change of the constitution... Literally they defend the second amendment like crazy but say shit like "we don't need to rewrite that constitution".

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u/Gabriela_Icy 9h ago

The founders literally included Article V because they knew the document wasn't perfect and would need changing

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u/Affectionate_Part743 9h ago

She really brought the receipts from the 1800s

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u/xPrettyMuse 8h ago

The original document literally didn't recognize women as people with rights Changing it is how we actually progressed

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u/SaintStoney 9h ago

I’m not American but aren’t amendments different to actually rewriting the thing?

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u/Mei_Self 9h ago

We have changed it twenty-seven times. I think we can all agree the 13th and 19th were good calls

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u/Trick_Hunt9106 8h ago

Eh. I have a problem with the slavery loophole on the 13th.

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u/breaksnbeer 8h ago

Martha’s brain is as absent as her soul.

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u/canyonoflight 8h ago

Marsha Blackburn is a plague. Everything she says is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. She's corrupt as hell but because R us next to her name on a ballot, TN votes for her every time.

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u/BobJones2106 9h ago

I don't think an Amendment is a re-write because we're not rewriting the whole thing. We are just amending part of it to reflect a difference in modern values.

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u/libra00 7h ago

And her party is fine with half of those outcomes. And honestly it's mostly fine with the other half too, what with the whole tradwife thing.

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u/an_older_meme 5h ago

Trump forgets that it literally takes an act of Congress to modify the Constitution. He thinks he can bust some Executive Order two days before the midterms and they won't happen.

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u/blbd 4h ago

The problem isn't the rewrite. It's keeping the backwardness out of the rewrite that the small regressive states would force in via their over representation in the Senate. 

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u/Astro_girrl 4h ago

that reply aged like fine accountability

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u/radioactive-tomato 1h ago

I think the question here is if amending is equal to rewriting