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Seems a little short-sighted. Constitutions are meant to last for centuries, right? What's the payment landscape going to look like in 2400? Even now, the enfo
by nonameiguess 3y ago
Seems a little short-sighted. Constitutions are meant to last for centuries, right? What's the payment landscape going to look like in 2400?
Even now, the enforcement detail is too much to put into a Constitution. There would need to be statute dictating exactly what vendors of what size selling what goods in what way have to actually accept cash. There's no sane way to require this of remote transactions. Nobody is mailing envelopes of cash before receiving anything. At best, a Constitutional provision could say something like "the government can't ban cash," which is great, but in a hundred years when nobody at all accepts it and banks don't carry it, you have a pointless, toothless provision in your Constitution.
- gottorf 3y ago> Constitutions are meant to last for centuries, right? Apparently, according to a study[0], the average life expectancy of a constitution (I presume it means a written, codified one) since 1789 is around 19 years. So while I'm sure the writers of constitutions envision them to last for centuries, in appears that they don't in practice. The world's oldest written, codified constitution still in operation is the one in the US. [0]: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511817595.004 https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511817595.004
- noah_buddy 3y agoEven the founders of the US did not expect the constitution to be used so long.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoYeah, their successors saw the "an update is required for your constitution, would you like to apply it?" pop-up and they keep clicking "remind me later" button for the last ~100 years.
- pessimizer 3y agoWe still have a "Fugitive Slave" clause.