• Wogi@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Not universally. Jefferson would have been horrified that the same government he established was still trucking along. 50 years was the longest he wanted it to last, and called for dramatic change at that point

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      11 months ago

      Do you honestly want to live in a country where the established foundations of government changed every 50 years? That kind of chaos and instability would be crushing. There are places like that right now, and first world countries they are not.

      • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Hmm… Sounds to me like someone understood the need to update a country’s systems with the cultural and technological progress of humanity.

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          11 months ago

          You’re right, which is why it should be slowly and continuously changed along with the times and through the mechanisms in place to do so, not drastically and sweepingly every 50 years or so. You don’t throw out and replace the constitution or other foundations of law without massive societal upheaval, which is just as bad as permanent stagnation.

      • Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Can you imagine if that change happened during like 2018/19 when the government was full of people I liked slightly less than the people in their right now? That would have sucked.