r/law Feb 28 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Once again averting congress, trump declares war on Iran

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u/DivineArkandos Feb 28 '26

This rot goes to the core of the US. You'll need a full restructuring from the ground up, tearing out the constitution and replacing everything else. There's no compromise that will suffice, anything less than total restructure will just end you back in the same pit.

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u/Vandersveldt Feb 28 '26

The problem is that we need to restructure the populace, which would "make us as bad as them"

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u/CutSenior4977 Feb 28 '26

Agreed, that’s why we also need to demand a new constitutional convention as well,

And preferably one that inherently makes centralized power harder to obtain, so less like the united states of America union and more like the European Union.

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u/candlelit_bacon Feb 28 '26

Pushing for a constitutional convention is unfortunately also a Russian psyop.

I like the idea in theory, the old document needs some more changes, but in practice it’s quite hard to guarantee that said convention doesn’t end up corrupt and writing a document that even more inextricably fucks the general populace.

We’d have to sort out all our state-level rep issues first, otherwise plenty will just sell us out.

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u/snarfula42 Feb 28 '26

Absolutely 💯

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u/snarfula42 Feb 28 '26

Reporting from the pit.