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A historic first today: The U. S. Constitution read aloud in ...


A historic first today: The U. S. Constitution read aloud in Congress; full text to follow along. Los Angeles Times, by Andrew Malcolm Posted By: jonitx- Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:33:38 GMT A wee bit of history this morning on the floor of ...

Guns and Religion: Domestic enemies of the Constitution


In particular, calling the U.S. Constitution “a text that the founders wisely left open to generations of reinterpretation” reflects a childish desire to twist a parent's words to mean whatever the child wants them to mean. ...

Yglesias » Bowdlerizing the Constitution


Yesterday they announced that they will be leaving out the superceded text in their reading of the Constitution on the House floor this morning, avoiding the awkwardness of having to read aloud the “three fifths compromise,” which counted ... I hope that commentators on the reading of the US Constitution and the requirement of citing the Constitutional authority for laws points out the lack of explicit authority granted Congress that allows restricting immigration or ...