If most of you wanted to become a Marxist or Islamist or Christian dominionist or whatever state, its hard to see how the bill of rights would stop that. America as a society would decide to change the basis of its government.
Christianity? That made many societies more restrictive for a good thousand years.
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That was actually where my mind was going - on the grandest of time scales it becomes order and chaos. Humanity starts out very liberal free (tribal/pre-civilization), becomes constrained, then fundamentalist (law\religion), then those values undergo reformation.
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Yeah, but we are still very young. Also, if you look at progress in terms of violence, the decline is consistent. Pinker's Better Angels shows that we have become less and less likely to die violently. Earliest hunter-gatherers seemed to have had 40% chance of being murdered.
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