(March 4, 2014 at 2:55 pm)Tonus Wrote: Wasn't that the idea? That as human society progressed, we wouldn't be held back by archaic laws based on archaic thinking? The founding fathers seem to have had a lot more faith in us than we often have for ourselves.
I don't know. They made it very difficult to amend the constitution. That does not augur well for their good intentions.