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Tea Party will never understand the Constitution: What the right misses about its favorite document
Salon ^
| April 21, 2015
| Elias Isquith
Posted on 04/21/2015 1:28:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Elias goes to a Muslim law professor to show how Ted Cruz and the TEA Party don't understand the Constitution? You can't make this stuff up!
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Groupthink is ugly.
Mindguards are on full alert.
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posted on
04/21/2015 1:29:39 PM PDT
by
Eddie01
(Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I suppose that they do understand it! Obviously they don’t care about it.
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posted on
04/21/2015 1:31:12 PM PDT
by
amnestynone
(A big government conservative is just a corporatist who is not paying enough taxes.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I’m not going to the link. What does it think we don’t understand?
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posted on
04/21/2015 1:31:56 PM PDT
by
demshateGod
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Right does not understand the left’s spin on the Constitution but the truth is simply written so that the less educated can even understand the original document.
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posted on
04/21/2015 1:32:11 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What? Did I miss that it’s a living, breathing document? Or that the American Indian wrote it (as proposed by a friend who had just gotten a degree in American Studies).
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posted on
04/21/2015 1:32:45 PM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Of course Salon, that paragon of constitutional knowledge and example, is going to teach us. Nonsense!
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posted on
04/21/2015 1:33:16 PM PDT
by
Fungi
(So you think you know anything about evolution? Think again.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
He doesn’t actually get to any errors in constitutional interpretation from the professor. Its just historical commentary. The editorializing before the interview is unsupported by anything discussed.
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posted on
04/21/2015 1:36:09 PM PDT
by
buwaya
To: 2ndDivisionVet
when articles are from leftist trash like “salon”...no need to act surprised.
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posted on
04/21/2015 1:36:40 PM PDT
by
kingattax
(a real American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Dear Elias,
There are a lot of folks who while we esteem Lincoln
for being a good president consider him to have played
rather loose with the Consitituion and recognize that
a some of his actions may not have been good for the
present day.
Then again I suppose you hold Obama to be right up there
with him.
Note. Try a few other Constitutional scholars and see
if they agree with Mr. Akil Whosis.
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posted on
04/21/2015 1:36:45 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Libs take 4 paragraphs to say NOTHING about the constitution.
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posted on
04/21/2015 1:36:58 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(I want the Halal butcher to cut up my pig. If he doesn't, I'm filing charges.)
To: demshateGod
Lincoln is really, really good. Southerners BAD.
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04/21/2015 1:37:21 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
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To: demshateGod
The professor asserts that Constitutional law has been primarily created by presidents and “executive action”. Most significantly by Abraham Lincoln. His arguments are incoherent gibberish.
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posted on
04/21/2015 1:37:44 PM PDT
by
Parmenio
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Elias goes to a Muslim law professor to show how Ted Cruz and the TEA Party don't understand the Constitution? You can't make this stuff up! Muslim?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
After the second paragraph I stopped taking this op ed seriously. This guy is a troll.
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04/21/2015 1:38:19 PM PDT
by
RginTN
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well that’s five minutes I’ll never get back. This article is typical Salon fare . . . you are better off reading in a saloon than reading an article in Salon.
Oldplayer
To: Conscience of a Conservative
I suppose that Professor Akhil Reed Amar could be a Scandinavian Lutheran, but I rather doubt it.
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04/21/2015 1:39:41 PM PDT
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2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“claim to love, but so few seem to understand.”
Indeed. Liberals especially.
“.. he sees Abraham Lincoln as perhaps the United Statess real founding father...”
Of course. Lincoln “loved blacks”, so of course he is the most important and real founder. Never mind he probably set us on track for the way things are today, such as ignoring the Constitution. So of course, he really is the founder, given that liberals prefer government overreaching its bounds.
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posted on
04/21/2015 1:40:45 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Lincoln thinks that the nation created the states, which, of course, Robert E. Lee
could never buy into. Robert E. Lee would say that the states created the Union; but the Midwest [perspective] would say
before Illinois was a state, it was a territory; the Union created these new states out of nothing. Thats a very Midwestern perspective on the Constitution. This alleged "midwest perspective" on the Constitution completely ignores the Articles of Confederation, the document which the Constitution replaced. The 13 original colonies ALL considered themselves sovereign states prior to the Articles of Confederation. In fact, if they were NOT individual sovereign states, they would not have needed to form a confederation of states - they could simply have formed a nation from "whole cloth".
The argument that the nation created the States is not historically correct; it is not legally correct and it is not logically correct.
This leftist muslim and his sycophants at "Salon.com" know less about the U.S. Constitution than my cats know.
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posted on
04/21/2015 1:41:15 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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