If the Constitution Was Written Today, How Would it Be Different?

Would Corporations Still Be Considered People?

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Let’s start by admitting that the document ratified on December 7, 1787, was flawed. Instead of worshiping the Founders as gods that could do no wrong, we could acknowledge their failings and do a better job based on the information we have available today.

We could begin by better selecting who is in the room to hash out the document. Fifty-five people at the Constitutional Convention worked out the language, only thirty-nine of whom signed it. All fifty-five were white, landowning men. The only people the framers found worthy. No women, no Black people, no Native Americans who the country belonged to in the first place—just rich, white men who created a document that naturally favored themselves.

The preamble could be allowed to stand. The framers were reasonably good at lofty words; they didn’t intend for them to apply to everybody. The dictionary definitions of those words will do just fine as opposed to the limited version meant by those who penned them.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to…