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I guess we need to know what people consider long. The full document is longer than the Declaration of Independence , which I know a lot better. I can’t remember having to read the Constitution in school, just the preamble and a couple of amendments. This doesn’t excuse my ignorance though. Thanks for providing the whole document.

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25 points

My five year old’s Fancy Nancy books are more than 19 pages.

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13 points

Less words per page though, and less confusing language.

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True, we need to rewrite the US constitution as a kids picture book with appropriate language so that the 54% of American adults with a reading comprehension below 6th grade can keep up.

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Compare it to the constitution of the Soviet Union.

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9 points

For a book, remarkably short.
For a news article, quite long.
For a legal document, who reads those anyways?

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37 points

Compared to most constitutions on the planet, it’s considered a short one.

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I think compared to most governments on the planet, the US Federal government was supposed to be a tiny one. That’s why it’s not supposed to be allowed to do virtually anything it does today.

The workarounds to grow the federal government are kinda like you’re stuck on a desert island and all you have is coconuts, so you build your house out of coconuts, you build your car with coconuts, you build a wife with coconuts, you build your kids with coconuts, a whole society built out of coconuts. It’s like "This is impressive, but what the hell made you think this was the intent of the assignment?

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you build your wife with coconuts

I vote we skip any more discussion about how we’re going to be using coconuts on this island.

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I just looked it up and it seems that the German constitution has more than 350 pages. But the first 20 sections contain the most important and almost unchangeable foundaries.

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To be fair, Germany has a loooong and mega history, and they’d have been thorough out of necessity. No idea what’s in there, but I assume there’s a lot that addresses all the parts and histories of Germany before it was unified. It would’ve been a nightmare drafting that thing up initially.

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