Zach Toillion
14 min readApr 17, 2019

Rewriting the Constitution
By Zach Toillion

The US political system is based on reverence for the constitution. The document has become a secular religion. Seemingly, no one can question whether or not it was truly a flawed document. The Constitution is so revered that it is nearly holy, and it’s founding fathers who wrote it may as well be considered secular gods.

The truth is the document is seriously flawed. It’s inability to address slavery led to Civil War rather quickly, and the 3/5th’s compromise is obscenely immoral. It’s lack of economic guidance gave birth to a system that led to massive…

Zach Toillion

Libertarian Socialist who writes about politics, economics, philosophy religion & history. Former Newspaper Columnist.