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To: Publius
A BTT for the evening crowd.

Free Pocket Constitution. Cato no longer gives them away but Heritage does.

The issue of Congress being subject to the laws it passes isn't going away. The original justification was that it was feared that the Executive would use them as a pretext for arrest or intimidation of sitting Congressmen, which is why Article I, Section 6 was included. That this is a flimsy pretext for Congress to grandly exempt itself from all of the laws it passes is achingly obvious, and yet it has taken a very long time to address it, largely because the only people capable of addressing it are in Congress. And, of course, the citizens, who, at least at the moment, appear to have lost patience with a royal Presidency and an aristocratic Legislative.

12 posted on 10/28/2010 8:25:44 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill; Publius

This Tuesday night I went to see Glenn Beck give a speech in Colorado Springs. There were all sorts of people promoting classes on the constitution in our schools.

I stopped at one table and asked a few questions about our Constitution; not one of the staffers knew the answers.

For years I have been handing out pocket constitutions and parchment declarations of independence. I suspect one percent of the people read them.

This has got to change.


13 posted on 10/28/2010 9:59:10 PM PDT by Loud Mime ("A question? What is it?" an interrogative statement used to gather knowledge.. Airplane!)
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