Posted on 07/20/2005 12:56:24 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
The 160 or so federal employees who filed into the National Archives' McGowan Theater yesterday for a program on the Constitution sat in plush red chairs and heard a five-piece brass band play patriotic songs. They were given pocket-size copies of the country's most famous document, and settled in for speeches from such experts as National Archivist Allen Weinstein and Deputy White House Counsel William K. Kelley.
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"Our Constitution is not a mere dry piece of dead parchment," Byrd said, "but a revered and living document that has helped inspire our nation to achieve seemingly impossible goals and to keep alive irrepressible hope, even in the face of unanticipated and sometimes unbearable adversity."
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He said polls show that a third of all Americans do not even know how many branches of government there are. (Three.) To help change that, the Democrat added language to a spending bill requiring federal agencies to provide "educational and training" materials about the Constitution each year to the government's 1.8 million civilian employees -- all of whom, after all, take an oath to support and defend the national charter. Agency officials say that could mean more programs such as the one offered yesterday, which was organized by the Office of Personnel Management to "celebrate" the new requirement with key agency officials. The law also requires schools that receive federal money to show students a program on the Constitution.
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Is this Constitutional?
"but a revered and living document........"
Any comments?
As long as they teach it as a 'living' document, as sheets suggested.
as long as it present the constitution as a "living breathing document", the gang of five liberals on the supreme court will have no problem with it.
If you're liberal and believe in changing the constitution to fit your agenda.
You mean there are three branches of government? I thought there were just two: The Supreme Court and the U.S. Senate. I had no idea there was a third branch.
:)
BUMP
I'm surprised that any governmental body would want people to have any understanding of the Constitution.
Without the Dept. of Education, HUD, the National Endowment for the Arts, National Public Radio, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, foreign aid, often ill-conceived involvement in foreign wars and other affairs, etc, etc. ad infinitem and ad nauseum.....
The way it gets trampled on by the SCOTUS, why bother.
The third is the liberal branch... :)
I would be great if this were a requirement for the Congresscritters that wrote that new law.
"The 160 or so federal employees who filed into the National Archives' McGowan Theater yesterday for a program on the Constitution sat in plush red chairs and heard a five-piece brass band play patriotic songs. They were given pocket-size copies of the country's most famous document, and settled in for speeches from such experts as National Archivist Allen Weinstein and Deputy White House Counsel William K. Kelley."
The CONSTITUTION is not ever "given" like some trade-show gifting swag. It has to be worked for to be inherited.
And to pass a test in order to stay in office.
Some body had better check these. They could be Marxist handbooks with nothing but a patriotic paper cover!
About friggin' time!
I've worked with GS workers in D.C. and now in Va...too many are clueless and socialists...
This begs the question, is the judiciary included in this program?
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