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A Mistake or Two

Aaron Worthing claims to have found 13 major factual errors regarding Constitutional matters in a recent Time anti-Constitution cover story by Richard Stengel. Here’s the list: 

  1. The Constitution does not limit the Federal Government.
  2. The Constitution is not law.
  3. The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment emancipated the slaves.
  4. The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment granted the right to vote to African Americans.
  5. The original Constitution declared that black people were to be counted as three-fifths of a person.
  6. That the original, unamended Constitution prohibited women from voting.
  7. Inter arma enim silent leges translates as “in time of war, the Constitution is silent.”
  8. The War Powers Act allows the president to unilaterally wage war for sixty days.
  9. We have only declared war five times.
  10. Alexander Hamilton wanted a king for America.
  11. Social Security is a debt within the meaning of Section Four of the Fourteenth Amendment.
  12. Naturalization depends on your birth.
  13. The Obamacare mandate is a tax.

What were the folks at Time thinking? And why this attack on the Constitution — what did it ever do to them? 

View all comments (6) |

Occam's Tool| 6.28.11 @ 11:56AM

Time magazine is run by Progressive scum. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.

Clint| 6.28.11 @ 12:11PM

Dr.Ron Paul, "The Constitution was written explicitly for one purpose — to restrain the federal government."

JimH| 6.28.11 @ 2:11PM

I am a great admirer of Dr. Paul, but, excepting the Bill of Rights I have to question this. Maybe I am misremembering by old history and civics classes. I thought the Constitution was largely passed to allow the Federal government to do things which it was unable to do under the Articles of Confederation. I’m sure the erudite readers will assist.

ncatty| 6.28.11 @ 12:45PM

You ask "What did it (the Constitution) ever do to them (Time/Stengel)?" It prevents them from imposing Utopia and obliterating our Liberty.

Louis Tully| 6.28.11 @ 12:50PM

Our best and brightest.

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