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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57566014/professor-take-our-country-back-from-the-constitution

Is the U.S. Constitution truly worthy of the reverence in which most Americans hold it? A view on that from Louis Michael Seidman, Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University:

 

I've got a simple idea: Let's give up on the Constitution.

I know, it sounds radical, but it's really not. Constitutional disobedience is as American as apple pie.

For example, most of our greatest Presidents -- Jefferson, Lincoln, Wilson, and both Roosevelts -- had doubts about the Constitution, and many of them disobeyed it when it got in their way.

To be clear, I don't think we should give up on everything in the Constitution. The Constitution has many important and inspiring provisions, but we should obey these because they are important and inspiring, not because a bunch of people who are now long-dead favored them two centuries ago.

Unfortunately, the Constitution also contains some provisions that are not so inspiring. For example, one allows a presidential candidate who is rejected by a majority of the American people to assume office. Suppose that Barack Obama really wasn't a natural-born citizen. So what?

Constitutional obedience has a pernicious impact on our political culture. Take the recent debate about gun control. None of my friends can believe it, but I happen to be skeptical of most forms of gun control.

I understand, though, that's not everyone's view, and I'm eager to talk with people who disagree.

But what happens when the issue gets Constitutional-ized? Then we turn the question over to lawyers, and lawyers do with it what lawyers do. So instead of talking about whether gun control makes sense in our country, we talk about what people thought of it two centuries ago.

Worse yet, talking about gun control in terms of constitutional obligation needlessly raises the temperature of political discussion. Instead of a question on policy, about which reasonable people can disagree, it becomes a test of one's commitment to our foundational document and, so, to America itself.

This is our country. We live in it, and we have a right to the kind of country we want. We would not allow the French or the United Nations to rule us, and neither should we allow people who died over two centuries ago and knew nothing of our country as it exists today.

If we are to take back our own country, we have to start making decisions for ourselves, and stop deferring to an ancient and outdated document.

If the shoe fits.

It doesn't fit here as I wear a 14. Must be your small minded size that it fits. LMAO.

Alright BE! Way to go.

Blitzen said.

Grow up, BE.

Let me remind you dear Blitzen if there weren't families like hers, who have given the ultimate sacrifice, you would be presently speaking Japanese, German or the King's English.

I suggest you that you thank her.

Thunderbird eagles?

Bazza the troll, who let you out of the closet Bazza?
The opposition must be getting desperate to drag you out from hiding.

Ninja, not my Queen thank you, but very rude making fun of her looks.

Moons, what can I say, me a troll?? LMFAO, pot and kettle come to mind.  Was never in hiding, just didn't comment as I missed you after your last, 1 of many, self ban sulks, lol.

Moons comment from another thread
" You have to think about the mentally ill and families dealing with mentally ill, today they are still kept hidden instead of properly cared for, institutionalized if need be."
Is that a cry for help? If you get the help you so desperately need, please take ninja, Preston with you, lol.

I figured that was the best you could do bazza.
Same old Bazza.