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