PeterS wrote:
Most here on OPP interpret the constitution in a manner that benefits them and no one else anyway so is an incorrect interpretation of the constitution any better than no interpretation at all? Myself, I got my interpretation of the constitution from college--has this marine or any of the others his age that he knows gone?
My point is that I don't think that we are any worse off now than we have been at any other point in time. People who don't know anything about the constitution will 'teach' themselves later via what their peers through (radio, television, and news sources) tell them the constitution says. Rights to own an AR-15 or any other semi-automatic weapon will be reinforced. Rights to discriminate against homosexuals will be reinforced. Right's to speak h**e speech will be reinforced. And of course, any amendment that they don't support; the 14th, the 17th, the 22nd, the 25th, will be suppressed.
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Liberals prefer the “living document” theory so they can make the Constitution mean anything they want. Conservatives believe in “it says what it says”. We had Civics and Government and American History in school whenI went. We learned about the Holocaust in the ‘50s, too. The NEA has ruined education.