The fact that you say that people think of it as some sort of "sacred text" is part of the problem. Intelligent people such as my self just wish to see the government follow the procedures that the Constitution requires it to follow, in order to gain power that they are not explicitly already granted in the Consitution itself, nor in any amendment to the same. The Constitution is meant to limit the government and empower the people, and nowadays it does neither from a practical standpoint.

We don't need a Constitutional reform, we need a legislative reform to prevent laws from being passed that violate the Constitution, without going through the proper process to amend the same. I would say we need a judicial reform as well, to prevent judges from acting in a manner contrary to the Constitution.

A good start would be to make violating the Constitution a treasonous act on the part of every government employee with power (all the way up to the POTUS). Also, if one knowingly signs a bill that goes contrary to the Constitution, then one should be barred for life from serving in any public office, even on a city council or county board, much less on a national level.

First of all, diet sodas don't have "zero calories". Even "Coca-Cola Zero" has 0.75 calories per liter.

Secondly, the number of calories in a drink has nothing inherently to do with health.

If they're going to ban large servings of soda, it should cover all soda, not just the ones that people perceive as the "worst". Especially because there are health concerns over artificial sweeteners.

Good luck with that.

Myself, I haven't watched the games in decades nor have I bought anything "Olympic". You're only starting now?

I don't forget. I harp on that daily in my meatspace life. However, those laws are not the subject of the article. This article is about the New York legislature trying to violate the 1st and 14th amendment.

"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Read that until it soaks in. No state can take away rights granted in the Constitution, nor the implicit rights acknowledged by the Ninth and Tenth. State legislatures are absolutely bound by the Constitution.

Ninth Amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

Tenth Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

So you advocate the repeal of the 9th and 10th Amendments to the United Stated Constitution?

Fuck you, nationalist pig.