| Anything more than sitting in an anonymous room watching uh, water dry. It's easist to see by doing a rundown of the Bill of Rights and pondering the actual troubles you'd face if you asserted them. Badnarik's constitutional law videos illustrate the process in the context of government affiliates (eg driving/RMV) better than I ever could. Although you have to interpret what he is saying with the goal of finding out how we got to this point, rather than falling into thinking you just need to assert your rights "harder" to regain freedom. The same thing happens with the "private" sector - complexity grows and its effects on the individual remain unregulated because it does not conform to the simplitic base case of "the government" doing something, even when it has formed a de facto government. For example, a person can't exist without paying large rents, which necessitates they go contract for a "job". This then controls what they can do even when not working. Historically this inconsistency was resolved by private behavior staying private, but we're in a time of upset because pervasive communication has changed that. Government applies a hazy justification of "commerce" to regulate absolutely everything. And the constructive behavior of this third "commercial" realm certainly impacts fundamental individual rights. But rather than longstanding "constitutional" rights being applied to the commercial realm, even more complexity is generated as half-baked adaptations are created to address the singular issues of the day. Back to my example of employment, someone can't be fired for being gay but someone else can be fired for wearing a red sweater on Sunday. Everyone dreams of being free of this yoke (eg "FU money") and finds ways to push back in areas that really matter to them. But don't confuse carving out a niche for yourself with addressing the fundamental problem. Not everyone can be a winner, and the trend is for freedom to be further eroded as the world becomes flatter and winners and losers are more pronounced (eg the destruction of cottage industry). I'll forgive "the founders" for not seeing that complexity creates contradictions (especially as they preceeded the explosion of logic and computation that makes this fact painfully apparent), but their ideas should not be considered sacrosanct. Of course this same conclusion can be used to support taking even more rights, and in this climate any constitutional amendment certainly would be doing so. So my argument is to enlighten thoughts and change culture rather than any revising of the constitution. |