How many Americans have actually bothered to read the Constitution?
“The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.”
― Mark Twain
How many Americans have actually bothered to read the Constitution, let alone the first ten amendments to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights (a quick read at 462 words)?
Take a few minutes and read those words for yourself—rather than having some court or politician translate them for you—and you will be under no illusion about where to draw the line when it comes to speaking your mind, criticizing your government, defending what is yours, doing whatever you want on your own property, and keeping the government’s nose out of your private affairs
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4 comments:
Im in...where do i get a wagon
I've read them and further I bought a pocket size book in Books A Million a few years back.
It's handy to read, pause, reflect and commit to something being unconstitutional or not.
If we could only get our "leaders" to read them.
From their actions, they cannot say with a straight face that they know even a few words of that document.
Obama uses it as toilet paper.
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