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# Burn the Constitution
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To emphasize the commonality
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of the 99 percent, to declare deep enmity of interest with the 1 percent, is to do exactly what the
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governments of the United States, and the wealthy elite allied to them-from the Founding Fathers to
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now-have tried their best to prevent. Madison feared a "majority faction" and hoped the new
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Constitution would control it. He and his colleagues began the Preamble to the Constitution with
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the words "We the people ...," pretending that the new government stood for everyone, and hoping
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that this myth, accepted as fact, would ensure "domestic tranquility."
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## What is the Constitution?
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A constitution is a set of fundamental principles and precedents according to which a state or an organization is governed. As a **foundational document**, it outlines the relationship between its subsections, defines how laws are made, what
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## The problems
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- The cult of the constitution
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### Who were the framers?
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- There is an almost religious devotion to which most citizens hold up both the constitution, and the framers
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- As is the case with any codified document of law or principles, its important to figure out in whose interest it was written. There is no such thing as a neutral political document.
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- A class analysis.
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- By discovering this, we can go beyond apparantly
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- Neutrality
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### Reforming the Constitution
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- Limits of reformism. How does it get changed? Go through history of amendments. Mass struggle, revolts, protests, etc.
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- Go through how each clause oppresses workers in some way.
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- Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.
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## The solution
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- Stop holding a highly flawed and vague document as an infallible religious text.
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- Stop glorifying the framers as enlightened beings, when in reality they were the class enemies of the workers then, just as much as now.
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- Realize that bourgeois political processes cannot reform the constitution. Improvements only occur when politicians are threatened by violence and instability.
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##
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Things that were legal, and enforced by the police:
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- Holocaust
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- Slavery
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- Segregation
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# Resources
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- http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinnkin5.html
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