Quote Originally Posted by Mike Blue View Post
I'll add a little more fuel to the fire for thought. Watch this: The American form of government. (Video)
I did spend the 10 minutes in which the author(s) started with 5 general forms of government and proceeded to reduce them to a choice between two. The other three were dismissed as either a cover for the 'negative' one, or a temporary transition towards it.
Some of the arguments for doing so were speculative, others were interpretations of history.

I learned a new thing. Apparently historical examples of 'government type A' ends and gives way to 'government type B' can mean either that 'government type A' is inherently doomed to failure, or that 'government type A' is one of the only sustainable possibilities.

No, I'm not that gullable.


Society, morals and values do change and eventually the government does reflect these changes. If it can't happen via peaceful evolution it will eventually happen via revolution and civil war. Laws just provide some inertia to this. The US constitution has been amended 27 times so far and it's safe to assume it will be amended again.

For example I'm pretty sure currently there is a minority of people who consider slavery as a good thing, slaves should have no right to marry, and inter-racial marriages should not be allowed either. When the US constitution was written these people were a majority and these things were then legal.

I expect that the same thing will happen with the gay marriages/unions/rights. And then it will be some other issue which today seems very clear cut to us but in few generations it would be up for debate.

Of course gay people would like to be accepted in the society, black people probably wanted the same thing when the founding fathers created the US constitution.

Bottom line is things change.