Hypothetical, the constitution is being ovrhauled/adjusted. Which of the amendments would you be most vehemently against being changed?

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1. I’m pretty attached to all of them

2. Depends on who is doing the changing. Wouldn’t mind clarifying a few, but I wouldn’t trust it to party politics so… all of them?

3. The 1st for sure. The 13th absolutely. The 4th and 5th.

   Honestly I’d be very hesitant to mess with any of them.

   As one of the longest continuous democracies in existent I don’t think sweeping changes to our core document are a great idea or at least should be approached with a lot of reservation.

4. All of them. Anybody trying to “overhaul” the entire constitution at once probably doesn’t have our best interest at heart.

5. The numbered ones.

6. All of them. I would only be in favor of amendments that add negative liberties to what we currently have, as any attempt to add positive liberties would end up as a political clusterfuck.

7. I would toss out the 18th.

   But I guess the 21st already did.

8. I don’t trust our current politicians for a second to overhaul the Constitution.

   I think there are some obvious amendments that need to be made though like giving the federal government the power to regulate health care because currently it does so anyway through the interstate commerce clause. There are a lot of things that have some weird legal justification like this that should just be codified into the Constitution I think.

9. Anybody whose trying to overhaul the constitution doesn’t have the people’s best interests at heart. I have no clue why anybody would think that any politician(on both sides) has their interests in mind.

   So, I’m against any of them being changed.

10. Isn’t it obvious?

    The 3rd amendment. Don’t need no redcoats crashing at my place and stealing my harvest.

11. The only change I would accept is if a bit was added to the 2nd Amendment that said “shall not be infringed means let them own all the fuckin guns”.

12. The third amendment, they can quarter troops in my home over my dead body.

13. All of them?

    The idea of rewriting the constitution in today’s climate of identity politics is kind of terrifying. I do not think the states would ratify the current constitution as it exists today. Who knows what it would take to get everyone to agree now.

14. I wouldn’t want to change any of them.

15. I’d be hesitant to touch any of them.

16. Don’t touch any of them

17. 14th

18. The amendments aren’t even really where the issues are.

    We need to clarify the war powers. We need to make very clear the extent of the commerce clause. We need to account for the federal regulatory state (which I think is necessary but somewhat overgrown). We need to clarify the manner and operation of the judiciary including enshrining judicial review. Etc.

    The amendments are, as things go, the stronger portion of the document.

    If I’ve got to pick an inviolable one, I’d go with the first, followed by the 13th, followed by the 5th, followed by the 21st, because daddy likes his whiskey.

19. All of them. We keep them all.

20. We can get rid of 18 & 21 as removing them both does nothing. Aside from that, I’ll fight tooth and nail to keep all of them.

    Honestly though, there is no reason to redo it. We could/should just pass new amendments as needed. That is the beauty of it.

21. All of them. I see no reason to change the Constitution. If you want to add to it there’s a process for that.

22. All of them. They are there for a reason.

23. The First Amendment. I know many people would say the Second because it’s what guarantees our ability to defend ourselves, but the First Amendment contains more of what we’re defending than any other single amendment.

24. All of them but especially the 1st and the 2nd.

25. 1st and it’s not even close.

    *Honorable mention to the 3rd – ain’t no British soldiers crashing on my couch

26. 1-10 are absolute in my eyes

27. Shall not be infringed. Oh, and all the others too.

28. 2nd Amendment: It keeps my stalker, an uppity government and the King of England at bay.