Swearing by the Constitution-Ted Cruz’s lodestone (Very long)

Weekly Standard ^ | 10/4/15 | Terry Eastland

[VinL]

Consider that in Republican Ted Cruz, the junior senator from Texas, we have a presidential candidate who during his high school years in Houston was among several students who met twice a week to read the Constitution and the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers and the even more obscure debates on ratification.

All of that while also memorizing the entire Constitution in shortened mnemonic form. Thus, in case you didn’t know (and Cruz still does), “TCC NCC PCC PAWN momma WReN” stands for the powers of Congress in Article I, section 8, of the Constitution: “taxes, credit, commerce, naturalization, coinage, counterfeiting, post office, copyright, courts, piracy, Army, war, Navy, militia, money for militia, Washington, D.C., rules and necessary and proper.”

Cruz....toured Texas, going to Rotary Clubs and other civic associations, where, from memory, they demonstrated their mastery of the Constitution. The nonprofit sponsoring the program paid them college scholarship money for each speech.

“It became a burning passion,” Cruz told me recently, adding that if he had been asked as a teenager what he wanted to do in life, defending the Constitution would have been at the top of the list. “I readily admit I was kind of a weird kid,” he said. If so, he was a weird kid who knew his Constitution.

It’s not surprising that in college (at Princeton) Cruz did his senior thesis on the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, or that, after earning his law degree from Harvard, he held jobs in which constitutional interpretation was often a daily undertaking—clerking for ... Rehnquist, serving five years as solicitor general of Texas..., and representing private clients in the federal courts, winning plaudits for his skillful advocacy. Now, not surprisingly, Cruz the presidential candidate has what might be called a constitutional agenda.

[cripplecreek]

Makes perfect sense to me.

[VinL]

Fault Donald for a thousand things,

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I don’t fault Donald for anything, my friend— that’s the point. So, why should a Trump supporter come on this thread and start bashing Ted Cruz?

[right way right]

Ha!! Snooty Sam bump.

I don't understand Trump fans who bash Cruz. Trump likes Cruz.