Posted on 04/21/2015 1:28:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
GOP candidates constantly invoke the Constitution. A Yale Law professor reveals what they all fail to understand.
With the 2016 election cycle having kicked into first-gear already, any American who hasn’t inured themselves to the monotonous (and often ultimately meaningless) repetition of the word “Constitution” is advised to get to self-desensitizing — and quick.
Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz have already made a fetishized version of the U.S.’s supreme governing document central to their campaign rhetoric; and even politicians less beloved by the supposedly Constitution-crazy Tea Party, like Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton, are likely to soon follow suit. That’s how American politics functions now, in the era of the NSA, Guantanamo Bay, lethal drone strikes and endless war.
But as that list of questionable policies suggests, there’s an unanswered question lurking behind so much of our happy talk about the Constitution — namely, do we even understand it? As dozens of polls and public surveys will attest, the answer is, not really. And that’s one of the reasons that Yale Law School professor Akhil Reed Amar has decided to write a multi-book series about the Constitution so many Americans claim to love, but so few seem to understand. “The Law of the Land: A Grand Tour of our Constitutional Republic,” released earlier this month, is that project’s latest addition.
Recently, Salon spoke over the phone with Amar about the Constitution, his books, and why he sees Abraham Lincoln as perhaps the United States’s real founding father....
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Yes, sorry I was not specific.
Heheh, that's great! But asking a bit much from him, I think...
Don’t find much to disagree with in what the good perfesser has to say.
A superiority attitude , or thinking by those in power leads to fascism.
The true meaning behind what this guy is saying is that Homosexuals, Muslims, Liberals are superior over christians and those who love and “ truly “ understand the Constitution.
They claim that the Constitution was written for Muslims, Liberals, Homosexuals only.
Liberalism, Homosexuality, Islam is fascism...
You. Have. Got. To . Be. Kidding!. Indians wrote the Constitution? A friend of yours with a college degrees said this?
And he never changed his mind on that.
The Emancipation Proclamation was a war action, by which the government essentially confiscated the property of rebels. It made no attempt whatsoever to end slavery as an institution.
It freed slaves, but did not end the institution. That took 13A.
Lincoln didn't have the power, nor did he ever "end slavery".
Pretty ballsy thing to say considering no Indian tribe had a written language.
His parents both later became US citizens.
I am perfectly willing to believe he is not a good American, but you really ought to present evidence.
Salon = Freaks , Dykes and Fairies
There is no evidence whatsoever for this laughable claim.
But believe what you like.
They were a bunch of very literate men.
Cite it.
Look it up.
American Studies, jma. My friend went in a smart lady and came out with a doctorate that rendered her stupid forever.
Amazing, just.... staggering. Staggeringly stupid.
Only a Lincoln buttboy or an MSNBC host could interpret the above as a description of a temporary wartime measure.
Both the organization of government and the confederation of States came directly from Great Britain and not from a bunch of neolithic savages whose full spoken language contained all of about 200 words [they had no written language at all.] Nor had they any concept of government more advanced than matriarchal tribal inheritance.
Indian claims that they inspired the Constitution are nothing more than chest thumping leftist lies. Conservatives don't spread them.
” who is man “
The right believes that men were created by their creator and we endowed with ineliable rights, and are not the slaves, property of the State.
The left believes that men are the property, slaves of the state ruled by a elite class whom they have deemed rulers by them selves.
Who have granted upon themselves the power to confiscate ; property, wages, resources without any consent to use for their own uses.
The laws that they impose on those who are lorded over apply to those whom they deemed to be imposed upon and are exempt of those laws.
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