"It's the last socialist constitution in Europe," grumbled one Eurocrat.
"The last two constitutions have been written by the community rather than a few people over many months," Chris, another moderator and a German university student, told me over Discord.
The last time the Constitution was amended for social purposes was in 1920, when alcohol was outlawed, but that prohibition was repealed in 1933.
The last time our Constitution changed, with the ratification of the 27th Amendment in 1992, it took a 10-year campaign (begun by a University of Texas undergraduate) to resuscitate an amendment that Congress had submitted to the states for ratification more than 200 years earlier.
The last one on the constitution, in the early 70s, took four-and-a-half years.
(As noted elsewhere in the article, the last addition to the Constitution was the 27th Amendment, dealing with Congressional pay, which was ratified in May 1992, two centuries after being approved by Congress in 1789).
Howard L. Heath, a vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union, said: "According to our constitution, the last duly elected person is in charge until there is a certified election that changes that.
What's new is the point my review challenged: that our generation has lost its way by giving the justices the last word on the Constitution's meaning and that, to reclaim our authority, we must remind them of our "power to overthrow their decisions".
This choice can be explained by a strong component of jus soli in the conception of citizenship, which prevailed after the last amendments to the constitution.
