[VIDEO] While it seems as of late the US Constitution is under attack by various forces - and many of them are marching the streets who don't care about free expression or even due process - it's something we should celebrate. While most seem to haggle over the ethnicity or race of the men who wrote the constitution in the 18th century, John Stossel in the video above notes the humility of the men who wrote that document to write what they had in the supreme law of the land.
What is your favorite part of the constitution? Some noted the amendments like the first or second or even the ninth or tenth amendments. Some noted that the constitution itself can be amended. In my opinion the US Constitution is very easy to understand, every state has a constitution and quite a few of them are very long compared to the federal constitution.
Of course one aspect of the US Constitution is that all powers not in the hands of the federal gov't is left to the states. That's probably why state constitutions may not always have the simplicity of the US Constitution. States have to take on the responsibilities that the US gov't isn't always able to handle. Think about it, while the federal gov't has many law enforcement agencies there's not such thing as a federal police to police the entire nation.
So while many BBQ for Labor Day, why not have a BBQ for Constitution Day.
- US Constitution at the National Archives
- USConstitution.net full text
- Illinois state constitution via IL General Assembly
- All state constitutions via USConstitution.net
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