Tastemaker

New questions on the US Citizenship Test:

Why does the United States have three branches of government?
Name two rights that are only for US citizens
Name two cabinet-level positions
Name one important idea found in the Declaration of Independence
What does the Constitution do?

info from BBC World News

This list just left me doing my own rabid musings on what DOES the Constitution do? I'm personally of the belief that people and culture (and their needs) grow and change over time, and that the beliefs we hold dear also grow and change. I'm a believer in throwing off the bonds of tyranny, but does that mean we have to take the Old set of rules made by people who may or may not have actually held beliefs similar to our present-day beliefs, and kowtow to the Old forever? Puritans had no voice or land in England, they were disenfranchised by Charles I before cutting off his head, disenfranchised by Charles II during the restoration, they came here and created their own religious communities which were not so tolerant of dissidence. Whigs had no land, they came to America and grabbed land. James Stuart Duke of York needed money, he created the West India Company to import slaves, and Virginia ate them up. Don't you think it's time to base our current government on our current ideals??? My beliefs run concurrent with the thinking of many of the Royal Society members (some of whom were indeed Founders of this nation) - push the envelope, find out what things are made of, question the world as it exists, imagine the world as it could be. -HCS