[ASB] 48 hours to influence Thomas Jefferson

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Atarlost

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Thomas Jefferson from when he is preparing to write the US Constitution appears in your home when you are first presentable in the morning. He returns to the moment he left after 48 hours in your company and commence the writing of the Constitution. This coincides with your days off. If you never get consecutive days off he appears for 24 hours and then timeskips to your next day off. He may take paper back objects with him but they vanish when he completes his draft constitution.

What do you attempt to communicate to him to better futureproof the original constitution?
 
I tell him nothing, it's pointless.

Jefferson had nothing to do with the writing of the US Constitution, he was an Ambassador to France at the time. He wasn't involved in the drafting or debates in the Constitutional Convention, he wasn't a member of the Constitutional Convention in any way, shape, or form.

Further, there was no one writer of the US Constitution to influence. The drafting of the US Constitution was a very complicated matters, with multiple different plans proposed by multiple different delegations and the document as it stands is the result of a series of compromises and deals made that no one member of the Convention would have the power to make changes to so as to "future proof" it. At best I might be able to convince them to try include a Bill of Rights, modeled on the Virginia Bill of Rights, as part of the original document rather than as amendments and warn them about with some clearer language regarding the 2nd Amendment.
 
So, basically you are asking us about our wishlist on how to improve the USA Constitution? Well, the CSA version is a good place to start, without the slavery parts, that is.
Besides that - go metric!
Limit the Federal District to 1 km2.
3 senators per state, 4 year terms for representatives.
The "never got passed proposed EC ammendment" - "senatorial seats" go to winner at state level, the rest goes to winners of Congressional districts. This includes gerrymandering limiting features.
Supreme Court justices given a single 25-30 year term of office.
Deficitary federal budgets need 3/5ths in each House to be passed in peacetime.
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Oh, too many for me to type :)
 
S'task said:
US Constitutional Convention - 1787
Metric System formalized - 1795

Sorry Metrification fetishists, this is not the way to pull it off, can't convert to a system that hasn't been invented yet.
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Obviously, the trick is to teach Thomas Jefferson the metric system and have him invent it early, as the American Metric System.
 
Bear Ribs said:
Obviously, the trick is to teach Thomas Jefferson the metric system and have him invent it early, as the American Metric System.
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I laffed, because this is exactly what he tried to do in OTL:

And I confess to the double tap mistake in my first post consisting of:
- confusing dates
- forgetting about Jefferson's plans for decimalistation (which I remembered only after your post)
 
S'task said:
I tell him nothing, it's pointless.

Jefferson had nothing to do with the writing of the US Constitution, he was an Ambassador to France at the time. He wasn't involved in the drafting or debates in the Constitutional Convention, he wasn't a member of the Constitutional Convention in any way, shape, or form.

Further, there was no one writer of the US Constitution to influence. The drafting of the US Constitution was a very complicated matters, with multiple different plans proposed by multiple different delegations and the document as it stands is the result of a series of compromises and deals made that no one member of the Convention would have the power to make changes to so as to "future proof" it. At best I might be able to convince them to try include a Bill of Rights, modeled on the Virginia Bill of Rights, as part of the original document rather than as amendments and warn them about with some clearer language regarding the 2nd Amendment.
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Who am I mixing him up with then? Because I remember from school that the first real draft was written by one guy during a recess when it became apparent that the Articles of Confederation weren't a workable starting point.
 
Atarlost said:
Who am I mixing him up with then? Because I remember from school that the first real draft was written by one guy during a recess when it became apparent that the Articles of Confederation weren't a workable starting point.
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James Madison?
 
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