Oh Good God... Does the RNC really want to say the Constitution was not originally defective?

[Perky]

Do they really want to suggest that the Founders were right to not count slaves as people?

Do they really want to suggest that? I really hope they do!

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Ironically, it was the Northern States that wanted the 3/5 fraction to count slaves

to prevent the Southern States from having a majority in the House of Representatives by a Census, to prevent the South from have "too much power" in Congress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_compromise

[old mark]

2. The original had no Bill of Rights, either.....nt

[Flying Dream Blues]

3. Steele is the gift who keeps on giving...

dontcha think?
:)

[Dr Morbius]

4. The Constitution was flawed from the outset and is still flawed..

I don't know if I'd call it defective, necessarily, but flawed, it remains.

Congress requires the power to define and limit non-person citizens, viz. corporations. The Constitution does not give it such power. We have no Constitutional right to vote or to justice or to even free thought, let alone privacy. A right to bear arms - which should be protected - must not be interpreted as license to own weapons of mass destruction. The Constitution should limit the gamesmanship which may be practiced by the upper House of Congress, specifically "secret holds" and anonymous earmarks. The Supreme Court holds the ultimate power of interpreting the Constitution itself and has zero accountability to the people. And there are many people who have other objections, some of them actually reasonable.

It is the greatest document of its kind ever produced, but it still needs work. We as Americans should never forget it, and I submit we, the current citizens of America, should actively seek to correct the flaws we detect in the Constitution.

[Sebastian Doyle]

5. So Michael Steele is fine with being 3/5 of a human being?

Who's going to be the other 2/5 RNC chairman then?

Maybe Ann Coulter? Her anorexia makes her about 2/5 human, and her sick mentality arguably even less so.