AMERICAN CONSTITUTION BY T.S.Khanna, July 8, 2024.

 

 

American Constitution

BY T.S. Khanna, July 8, 2024,

Foundation For Better Government,

 

 

Probably, never before the American polity has been so divided as it is today.  As the presidential election is moving closer, tensions are rising to the flash-point.  Yet, a deeper look shows that t is not the Americans but the outdated American Constitution at fault creating almost two cultures of the two parties dividing, and pitting people against one another.

 

Human mind is full of illusions, but human knowledge is limited to limited physical realities.  In the period of crisis, articulation of illusionary vision overpowers realistic vision.  The abstractions and assumptions of the illusionary vision get tested only after it is adopted and practiced.  Subjectivity, created at the time also feeds to weakness of the adopted system.

 

A systemic fault with such systems is that they do not carry any mechanism for periodic review, evaluation and essential amendments in response to changing political conditions. Eventually, the solution of political problems of one time becomes the cause of next crisis.  This what is happening in America.  Political systems get formulated from crisis to crisis.   

 

Although, American Founders reflected a great deal of experience and thought, they could not foresee the type of changes that  have occurred in the American polity.  Today, the American Constitution has a considerable value as intellectual inheritance but not much for current use.

 

Now the call of the time is to rewrite a new constitution in light of the 248 years of experience, preserving the  core values of democracy.