[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The Constituition only prescribes the oath of office for one office, the President. The Constituition has worked pretty well for 200 years, if we'd only pay attention to it.

[l0newolf]

The Constituition has worked pretty well for 200 years, if we'd only pay attention to it.

You mean to say IF we had paid attention to it the Constitution would have worked pretty well. Let's face it, we haven't paid attention.

One other note - during the election debates Bush was fond of saying that he would uphold law & order when elected president...but never, ever said he would uphold the Constitution.

Must have been rough on him when he actually had to swear in.

[Fearless Flyers]

"The Constituition has worked pretty well for 200 years, if we'd only pay attention to it."

I know where 8 of the missing 25 years went, how do you account for the other 17?

[barf]

Re: 11. Thomas Jefferson told us that a democracy lasts only 150 years. A republic should behave similarly. Ours must have started going downhill as FDR instituted his form of socialism including our SS system which will either break the bank or fail in its promises sometime in the near future. The last election apparently made many lose faith even in the Constitution. But as a nation of laws, our laws are made by man. There lies the weakness.