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Here's a Twitter and Facebook update that's making the conservative, libertarian, and constitutionalist rounds: "Cato's pocket Constitution makes WaPo bestseller list! But appears to have been mistakenly filed under 'nonfiction.'"

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Ken (Old Texican)| 10.12.09 @ 12:55PM

Mr Antle
...Too subtile for me. (no sic. smile)

Seriously, this is no time for gallows humor.
In my mind, it is a time for discovering ways and means to preserve our constitution.
We hope to help accomplish precisely that: Tell me what you think.
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Liberal Reader| 10.12.09 @ 3:21PM

Mr Antle,

This is a slender column, but I'm just curious:

What exactly do you mean by "Post-Constitutional" America?

The Constitution enshrined slavery in law: under it, whites in the South participated in one of the greatest crimes against humanity in modern world history.

By Post-Constitutional America are you referring to the fact that a slave's descendant is now First Lady, and the son of an African now President?

Or did you have something else in mind?

Because once we got rolling as a nation, we ENDED slavery: that too was Constitutional.

So I guess what I'm asking is, What do you mean by "Constitutional"?

Ken (OLd Texican)| 10.12.09 @ 4:00PM

OK LIb tard. Let me make it veeeeeery simple for you. Got your ears up?

OK
I never owned a slave. Nobody in three lifetimes has owned a slave here...(unlike Saudi Arabia which has thousands and thousands...today!)

Obama's ancestors sold my ancestors their slaves.
Get over it.
In the 1600s and 1700s a white man could not survive Africa. The natives brought fellow natives right down to the beach...for sale.

Does your work here give you a free pass with the communists in office?

Do you know the one reality of slavery? It is impossible without bended knee. I personally will die first. Will you?
It is the shame of a people that they bended knee. I hope they will get over it...someday.

Our constitution was amended. Good!

So why are so many black folks still enslaved by their communist masters?

W. James Antle III| 10.12.09 @ 6:44PM

Liberal Reader,

I was talking about "post-constitutional America" before we had a black president and first lady. Below I mention it in the context of a judicial nominee who I supported who was the daughter of sharecroppers:

http://www.enterstageright.com.....ostcon.htm

It has to do with whether the Constitution limits in any meaningful sense what the federal government does. That doesn't mean the Constitution was a perfect document. Its flaws, however, were fixable through the amendment process (such as the amendment that ended slavery) while there is no solution to a government that defines its own powers.

So I'm afraid this isn't a racial issue or code word. Nice try, though.

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