That strong slink at dusk, the matinal turn around what pass for parks in our city, an hour or so on the machines at the gym, a stalwart subside in the local swimming pool… Hobbies that assistant us keep fit, pastimes that are more a nuisance than a real pleasure. We order it working out; a above generation knew it as their every day constitutional. I prefer the latter term… Not least because it reminds us of other important matters – and how our health, coming profusion and all-round riches are being robbed in broad daylight. The game’s afoot, my dear Holmes? The refractory is, dear Watson, that it is not at all elementary! On the masquerade of it, constitutionals – congenial constitutions – are a righteous feature and greatly to be desired in themselves.
Imagine, then, the happiness that wells up in the really democratic hearts of the hoi polloi when they heed that there are plans to give them a altered one. The genuinely republican teat swells with gem at the mention of anything old (old-fashioned values, tradition and tradition, the nature things were); but wave the announcement of a new constitution under their noses, and you may well limit them to a quivering bowlful of jelly. Problem is: is the likelihood entirely constitutional? Consider: we already have a constitution! As constitutions go, it is not an peculiar constitution – guilelessly because those who are its guardians cannot be compelled to go anywhere near far enough to care for those who are meant to be mindful by it.
The same exaggerating cove who reflection up the merry maxim mens sana, etc. – Juvenal, a Roman satirist (do expression him up on Wiki, would you, dear?) – also came up with the pithy phrase: "Who will security guard the guards?" It took Bob Dylan (don’t irritation googling him, girls) nineteen centuries to forge a logical response: "The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind…"! Be that as it may, my bonnie fellow-citizens, the intention is that even after all the hubbub and nuisance we’ve had with opening and patronize republican constitutions, we have hardly achieved a maintain of affairs whereby we can safely say, all’s well and the constitution is in admirable hands. No, "it is more honor’d in the break than the observance", as that charming humorous megalopolis bozo Hamlet uttered, glancing about him and muttering under his indication that there was something crumbly in the state of, um, shall we roughly Denmark? So, all this begs the question: if we have a ill-starred track minute with the inalienable rights of our fellow citizens in the fresh past; if we’ve enchanted poor care of our present constitution – warts and all – to the bounds of oversight (did we forget parts of the 17th Amendment, dears?) and carelessness (is the 13th all it can be?); what makes us contemplate that a prospective jaws of rights will be anything but wrong? It may able the account for some… But the prop of us will be left holding the can – a tender-hearted analogous to wanting to pass water, and pronouncement that the urinal we’re at is in reality a constitutional that leaks.
Now that’s not a fair pass… Surprise! Surprise! Given what passed above, you may be bewitched aback to procure that it is the people who are at the forefront of this transfer to usher in a new constitution. When we answer "people", placid reader, of course we do not mean the likes of you and me who go the addition mile to keep our elected servants happy, all right and secure. No, indeed! Because the gracious of VIP who will soon be gently agitating for constitutional rectification are the type who exercise professionally to give the nation with their athletic skilfulness (think international cricket); stay fresh fit by regularly applying oodles of cosmetics to their cosmetically enhanced facades (think cellulite – ugh, celluloid screen); and workout at Body By Kris (don’t think about too hard). In a nutshell, punitively beloved, it is the country’s sportsmen, actresses, and part-time, two-bit hoodlums who are contest the nation that will confidently enrich the powers that be with a few spare decades in power. Don’t let all this put you off, dear. Face up to it fellow a man.
Or, if you are a woman, get a kick out of a goddess! Because while you may not be able to countenance the aspect of coin that will modify us overnight from a democratically challenged republic into (oh, say) a constitutional dictatorship, the legitimate genius lies in your hands. By the interval April rolls around, perhaps, the consideration would have struck home… So don’t omit to tense your abs to show that you won’t suffer it, even as you area a leg and put your best foot forward in the handling of the polling booth.
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