Posted on 01/06/2011 7:47:11 AM PST by careyb
With apologies to everyone born after 1972.
“I’m a bill.” is what I remember. I was in my 20s when School House Rock was prominent. I loved it.
There are FReepers who were born after 1972? Is that allowed? ;~ )
I actually found them helpful in elementary school. The later versions, however, were terrible.
Of course it’s not the House’s reading that counts. It’s the Courts. Anyone truly interested in limited government would boo and hiss at Article 3. They’d also give bronx cheers for the entire preamble, a good portion of Art 1, Sec 8, and most of the bill of rights.
WOW this brings back memories.
Use to sit with my babies and watch this. They LOVE it!
I remember “Conjunction-junction, what’s your function”
Schoolhouse Rock- How a Bill Becomes a Law
Exactly how was a law that school buses stop at railroads crossings a federal matter? It wasn't an enumerated power and where school buses stop isn't a matter of interstate commerce? Schoolhouse Rock is a tool for the defederalization of the government! :-)
(singing)
I’m an amendment to be, yes an amendment to be,
and I’m hopin’ that they’ll ratify me.
There’s a lot of flag burners who have got too much freedom.
I wanna make it legal for policemen to beat ‘em,
cause there’s limits to our liberties.
‘Least I hope and pray that there are,
cause those liberal freaks go too far.
kid: Well why can’t we just make a law against flag burning?
Amendment: Because that law would be unconstitutional.
But if we changed the Constitution...
kid: Then we could make all sorts of crazy laws!
Amendment: Now you’re catching on!
Bart: What the hell is this?
Lisa: It’s one of those campy 70’s throwbacks that appeals to Generation-X’ers.
Bart: We need another Vietnam to thin out their ranks a little.
Kid: What if people say you’re not good enough to be in the Constitution?
Amendment (singing):
Then I’ll crush all opposition to me,
and I’ll make Ted Kennedy pay.
If he fights back, I’ll say that he’s gay.
Congressman: Good news, Amendment! They ratified ya! You’re in the U.S. Constitution.
Amendment: Oh yeah! Door’s open, boys.
Dangit, now you all got the Lolly Lolly adjective song in my head again!
That was adverb.lol
Of interest to early born Gen X’ers
My kid’s grown now, but he learned the Preamble to that tune. The Bill on Capitol Hill was my favorite though.
Also, way back when, he learned the President’s in order by learning this song (Animaniacs take on the Presidents.) I just listened to it again and realized they changed the words.
They used to say “John Kennedy, he got shot”...they changed it to something about Camelot.
It also used to end with a line about who’s in charge...”it’s Clinton, first name Hillary.” Now it says something about the Clintons...Bill and Hillary.
Funny, they made the Animaniacs PC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvy0wRLD5s8
“Sittin’ here on Capitol Hill...”
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I memorized the Preamble at age 8 from Schoolhouse Rock. Don’t nobody diss Schoolhouse Rock.
The sad thing is that the bill in the video only became law after kids saw it on TV. Congressmen all wanted credit for passing it. (Of course, my civics teacher might have been pulling my leg on that.)
I was born after 1972 and grew up on Schoolhouse Rock! I know own the collection.
Will Big Sis sing “Interplanet Janet” and dance around in bell bottoms?
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