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Pocket US Constitution becomes best-seller after speech
Associated Press ^ | Jul 30, 2016 6:56 PM EDT

Posted on 07/31/2016 8:23:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai

A pocket version of the U.S. Constitution has become a best-seller on Amazon.com. […]

The Constitution emerged as a best-seller days after Muslim-American lawyer Khizr Khan, whose son was killed while serving in Iraq, flashed a pocket Constitution and offered to lend it to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a speech at the Democratic National Convention.

The version Khan used at the convention did not appear to be the same as the one that became popular on Amazon. …

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: constitution; dnc; dncspeaker; khan; khizrkhan; pocketconstitution; sharialaw; usconstitution
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To: ASA Vet

We saw one original copy - I think it was in Salibury, England. My husband took a few photos - in spite of that being against the rules. He always does that sort of thing.


61 posted on 07/31/2016 11:25:54 AM PDT by Ladysforest (Racism, misogyny, bigotry, xenophobia and vulgarity - with just a smattering of threats and violence)
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To: umgud

Just the supremacy clause.


62 posted on 07/31/2016 1:10:11 PM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: HangUpNow

Nor am I. I just sincerely see no “loopholes” that ought to be plugged in the Constitution, and the Tenth Amendment is quite specific about states and the people exercising the powers not enumerated for the federal government, thus taking care of perceived “loopholes” that ought not even get to the federal level. The way that the Supreme Court went about “legalizing” abortion was utter evasion of the Constitution and lying about the contents of the Fourteenth Amendment, for example.


63 posted on 07/31/2016 2:25:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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