We need a Constitution for the country we actually HAVE- not the country some people we haven't had since 1845 or so. There is no reason we shouldn't have a Constitution that treats people in cities, black people, brown people, Indigenous people, LGBTQ people, Muslim/Jewish/Buddhist/agnostic/athiest people, immigrants and the poor as being just as American, just as deserving of being treated with dignity, and respect, and deriving of cultures that are just as valid as those of people like my own ancestors-some of whom may have come over on the freaking Mayflower and some of whom crossed the country on the Oregon Trail., since my heritage is an absurd cliche' in some ways.

Let's write a Constitution that enshrines the most important parts of being American- the right to disssent, the right to question, the right to work for change, and the right to challenge authority when that authority is acting in illegitmate and un-American ways- such as when authority passed the Fugitive Slave Law, forced the Cherokee to take the death march known as the Trail of Tears, when that authority got us into pointless and indefensible wars such as the invasion of Mexico in 1846, the "war to end all wars" in 1917, Vietnam in the Sixties, by proxy in Central America in the Eighties, and in Iraq and Afghanistan in the early years of this century.

Let's write a Constitution that respects and recognizes as equal all cultures, that accepts that no one should back one economic model or one political ideology or one form of one religion over all others.

We can only be a fully free land if there is no exclusion of people, no privileging of anyone, no dismissal or devaluation of anyone, in our Constitution.