Roe vs Wade vs SCOTUS legitimacy

[Belsnickel]

(05-04-2022, 04:14 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Just out of curiosity, and this probably deserves its own thread, but in what ways is it outdated that you feel should be addressed immediately?

It does deserve its own thread, and I think we have actually had threads on it before. Some of the immediate ones that come to mind, though, include improving representation in our government (we've tripled our population in the past century while the number of Congress members has stayed the same), working to democratize the federal government (this wasn't done because the size of the fed wasn't supposed to be this large, but modern needs require it), reworking amendments so they can take into account more modern technology and a post-industrial world.

Those are just a few things. I think a lot of people dismiss these out of hand but also express disappointment in the SCOTUS for their policy-making decisions from the bench when they don't go their way. The thing about it is that the further we get from the original document the more we will lean on the SCOTUS to make these sorts of rulings to define our rights and liberties. If we keep up with our Constitution and continually work to modernize it, then we aren't having to rely on an unelected body to tell us how a 230 year old document applies to the modern world.