The US Constitution was progress for the time. Well...The Iroquois Confederacy, founded in 1142, is the oldest living participatory democracy on earth... But, lets talk about a certain living medium of incrementally slow progress that drastically affects our lives in the United States.
Our constitution is not the last stop/last notion of democracy nor the end-all-be-all for an evolving nation in transition. Our humanity, our dignity, and our freedom shall not be relegated by a few "interpretants" of this document. We need updated, transparent, practical, and mutually beneficial legislation that protects the many people we cherish and are proud to have. Once prized by the French (though obviously once a colonizing and enslaving state; is a nation with a revolutionary history of socially analyzing the manner of positive and negative freedoms; diving into complexity in a much more nuanced way) with the Statue of Liberty, we must practice liberty.
To practice the delimitation of our constitution through the mere preservation of a narrow intent of wealthy white men in the 1700s is abstract absurdism.
What wealthy white men of the 1770s thought of freedom is now merely a vestige, an old, bloody, tainted, murderous, racist boat that can no longer float toward a temporal and adapting democracy.
Societies are minuscule when mandated and relegated to the fetishization of relics or vague scripture (if the language were less murky than its origins, we would not need the supreme court to "interpret" the text like a wavering priest). So, we need to pay more attention to evolving quickly enough with our cultural needs. Thus, we see the congealed winces of those who watch such a slow movement to practically enforce liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all. Meanwhile, researched, substantiated, studied, and practical constitutional improvements are at hand.
The prison system, for instance, need not make billions off the back of regurgitated slavery, prop itself upon the bible, nor receive the applause of the constitution. The movement of real lives today toward liberty shall not be impeded by idolatrizing contributions from long-ago dead men restricted in scope by the times they lived. Success in democracy = listening to those who need less oppression/more voice/more choice; listening to the most misheard and mistreated. The poor, the ancestors (who still wait for deserved reparations) of the cruelly enslaved, women consistently oppressed by outlandishly outdated sexism (superiority complexes), the unidentified, and the massively imprisoned need now to overwhelm the conversation. Moreover, the wealthy white men of the 1700s can lay quietly in their opulent graves.
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