Constitution And National Soul
A constitution really only reflects the type of
people who wrote it, the time
peroid when written and the people over time
who will find ways to exploit it.
Although we are raised to believe that
a constitution is the greatest thing
since sliced bread, there are many
flaws. Section 2.1 (d) of the Aug. 28, 1992
Constitutional Accord states:
"Canadians and their governments are
committed to the vitality and
development of official language minority
communities throughout Canada."
Except in 2.1(b) concearning native
languges, all other languges are
delibertely left out. This is utterly and
completely racist. This leaves out
millions of Canadians and turns them into
"second class citizens." It would
be more appropiate to have "offical"
replaced with "white." How can we preach
equality if were not equal.
If we left no room for racisim in our
constitution we would have the word
"official" replaced with "working" since
it is neutral but
still recognizes that French and English are the most
dominant languges.
However, the Canadian constitution is not alone in
it's racisim. When the
American constitution was written to uphold
equality for all and the freedom to
pursue happiness, were the blacks of the
country involved. No, of course not.
The constitution refleceted only the
white peoples values at the time. The
people who wrote it. Which brings me to
my next point. Written constitutions
primarly are flawed since they can't
evolve with the nation. They usually
represent ignorant views that are no
longer relevent to modern society. How good
will our constitution be in two
hundred years? How good will it be in five
hundred years? A good example of
this would be the American right to bear arms.
This initially was in
order to protect themselves from the British and probably
made perfect sense,
at the time. But now this is totally absurd. People have to
live in fear and
protect themselves, ironically enough, with guns because there
are so many
out there. There are school shootings it seems once every month and
putting
control on guns is nearly impossible because it is protected by
the
constitution. This correlates directly with my last point. Writing
a
constitution gives practically total immunity to every (Warning!! Good
Guliver's
Travels symbolisim about to be injected.) yahoo out there. The
biggest example
of this is the N.R.A., despite some good promotion by
Charlton Heston. They have
the right to bear today's most deadly assualt
weapons because they know they can
hide behind the all powerful constitution.
The constitution in the U.S. is
exploited so a bunch of rednecks can play
with their guns. All attempts of
control on these weapons is continually
knocked down because it is
unconstitutional. Hell, that part of the American
constitution will probably
never change. Which shows just what kind of damage
can be done with the
constitution. All my contempteous arguing can be summed
up in this: "A
constitution is a mirror attempting to reflect the national
soul." This
leaves room for inevitable error but ensures that we are forever
continuing to
improve our
constitution.