America has the oldest written constitution in the world. However the America that the founding fathers knew over 200 years ago when the constitution was first written was vastly different from the America we know today. Maybe now in light of the Patriot Act, the War on Terror, Immigration Issues, and the like that we should consider updating the constitution to reflect our more modern times (as well as to reaffirm some of its original values). I would like people to comment on this thought and I encourage people to put in suggestions of what should be added or deleted from this hypothetical new constitution.

This is plain nonsense. What makes sense is requiring the government to obey the document, plain and simple.

'It is not only the same in words, but the same in meaning, and delegates the same powers to the government, and reserves and secures the same rights and privileges to the citizen; and as long as it continues to exist in its present form, it speaks not only in the same words, but with the same meaning and intent with which it spoke when it came from the hands of its framers, and was voted on and adopted by the people of the United States. Any other rule of construction would abrogate the judicial character of this court, and make it the mere reflex of the popular opinion or passion of the day.' SOUTH CAROLINA v. U S, 199 U.S. 437 (1905)

What the shills and and charlatans want is to be able to change their constitution at will when and when "they" want to.

..........this is essentially the same thing you hear from people who say they believe in "a living breathing Constitution"....meaning that,like a living breathing human being,if you torture it enough,you can make it say anything you want it to say....in essence,they are arguing that the Constitution has no fixed meaning at all,and that those who wrote it didn't really mean what they said.

The Constitution is alive as long as we keep it alive. But like all living things, it grows. That's why we keep adding amendments. The founding fathers didn't put in the 13th and 14th Amendments. No way. I don't think we should have to stick totally with what the founding fathers wanted, but rather keep the good stuff they believed in like the Bill of Rights and continue to add what we think we should like we have been doing all along.