[Mogollon]

Sounds to me like ol' Jeff would be much happier in another country that doesn't have an 'ossified, anachronistic' constitution around. Maybe Cuba or N. Korea would suit him better.

[2nd amendment mama]

More positive proof that liberalism is truly a mental disease.

[ladtx]

Since Wyoming, with fewer than 500,000 inhabitants, has the same clout in the Senate as California, with almost 34 million, each Wyomingite counts 68 times as much as each Californian.

He's on to something here. He's completely right. -- Hey, I've got an idea kids, how's about we start another legislative body that represents the people with the number of representatives allocated according to the population of the st-----wha???

Tttthhere is? Oh ------ nevermind.

[gridlock]

The Constitution is also responsible for burdening us with the Electoral College, a body designed to purposely undermine popular sovereignty. The 2000 election, when Al Gore outpolled George Bush but was denied the presidency by the Electoral College (with an assist by the Supreme Court), is the most recent example of 18th-century oligarchy trampling 21st-century democracy.

When somebody pulls out this old gripe, they reveal themselves, unequivocally, to be a moron.

If the Electoral College did not exist, there is no reason to assume that the popular vote in 2000 would have even remotely resembled the voting that actually occurred. Each candidate would have campaigned differently, and the party apparatus would have worked to get the vote out in all districts, whether the state were firmly in one camp or not.

There is no way to know what the the nationwide popular vote would have been like, but you can be pretty certain that it would not have been anything like the narrow margin between Algore and President Bush.

Slathering on the lie that the election was decided in the Supreme Court is just icing on the cake.

[gridlock]

Jeff Mankoff is a sixth-year Ph.D. student in the History Department.

Hey, Jeff! How's that thesis comin'!

[pabianice]

Jeff Mankoff is a sixth-year Ph.D. student in the History Department.

Translation: "Jeff Mankoff is a spoiled, perpetual student in Leftist nonsense, never having actually held a paying job in the private sector. Yet he feels empowered to lecture those of us who have done so."

[SE Mom]

This fellow needs to try fresh air and sunshine- clear his mind of the obvious intellectual smug-smog with which it's filled.

[T.Smith]

"As Yale political scientist Robert Dahl has pointed out, the Constitution is grossly undemocratic. Since Wyoming, with fewer than 500,000 inhabitants, has the same clout in the Senate as California, with almost 34 million, each Wyomingite counts 68 times as much as each Californian."

Pssst, there's this thing called the House of Representatives. You might want to look it up. You might also want to check the term "Representative Republic". You might also investigate the purpose of Senators prior to the 17th amendment (you know, the one that put the nail in the coffin of states' rights).

[rarestia]

This whole article needs to be categorized under "Just Damn," for its complete lack of coherent thought.

Future Dem - Check

Product of liberal agenda in colleges - Check

Flaming anti-gunner - Check (evidenced by the fact that this is the only amendment they could conjure)

If I had my druthers, this person would have their Doctorate revoked for succumbing to stupidity.

[Mr. Blonde]

"Creating the Electoral College and denying the vote to women, blacks and poor people were both part of the Framers' desire to keep power in the hands of people like themselves (and I have a sneaking suspicion many "strict constructionalists" would prefer things that way)." Could someone please point out exactly where the constitution denied the right to vote to women and minorities? It is my understanding that the constitution has relatively little to say about who can vote beyond being of a certain age. The states took it upon themselves to add a few other stipulations. I could be wrong though, I'm a lowly undergrad, not even a poli sci major and certainly not at Yale.

[Congressman Billybob]

I am a former Editor of the Yale Daily News. I am ashamed that an article this poorly thought through has appeared in its pages. I would write a complaint letter to the current Editor, but I am certain from experience that he/she would not bother to print it.

So, on behalf of the former Editors and reporters on this once-capable newspaper, I apologize for this drivel.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "The Hart-Miller Future of New Orleans"

[NeoCaveman]

the sanctimony that has given us "Constitution Day."

The professor doesn't seem to like you much

[Paulus Invictus]

Jeff, go live in Cuba. You'll be at home there and say almost anything except criticize their commie laws.

[dirtboy]

[Jeff Mankoff is a sixth-year Ph.D. student in the History Department.]

And his parents should ask for their money back...

[FlingWingFlyer]

More proof that anyone can get a Ph.D if you have the money to buy one. This guy is a blithering idiot.

[jim macomber]

"...except for some obnoxious fliers around campus put up by the Orwellian-sounding Committee for Freedom,..."

The fact that the words "Committee for Freedom" sound Orwellian to him is worth noting.

(Resent to match subject and verb.)

[Ohioan]

What is patent in this article, is that the author worships the Leftist mantra of "Democracy"--i.e., rule by numbers--and a completely utilitarian view of political societies, where nothing is really predictable, and the end sought by the most noses, at any moment, justifies whatever is desired at that moment.

Note his effort to clothe Leftist tripe with scientific method, in his citation of the words of a Leftist Professor. I used to tear up the likes of these fellows when I was a College Freshman. They have not become on whit more formidable since.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[yarddog]

Questions like this need to be asked occassionally because sometimes we just take things like the Constitution for granted.

Unfortunately this guy is so dumb, I thought for awhile it was an exercise in sarcasm.

I am not an expert on the Constitution but I think many brilliant people have declared it one of the worlds greatest documents. I think so too.

[hosepipe]

There are three words found NOWHERE in the U.S. Constitution...
1) democracy...
2) democratic...
3) and democrat...

Its on purpose.. The framers knew what democracy was so did Marx and Lenin..
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Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx

Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. V.I. Lenin

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.- Karl Marx

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We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.~Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

[PureTrouble]

To write what was written in this article in any other nation that does not have freedom of speech would have seen this 6th year student sent to jail for a very long time.

Maybe we could get an exemption for say 10 days (just for Yale students) to let this young lad feel what would happen to him if he did not have such protection.