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Yankee06
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congrress reads The Constitution
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1/6/2011 8:15:32 PM
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-I can't believe the new republican house has alreaady failed. It wanted to read the Constitution at its opening session, --great idea. It read an amended version, --leaving out the 3/5 th clause, ---bad idea.
-I don't know about y'all, but I don't want either party screwing around with history. Tell it like it was then, cuz that's why it is the way it is now!
-I can't believe I find myself agreeing with congressman Jackson:
Here's the article:
Should Congress Have Read the WHOLE Constitution? Jesse Jackson, Jr. Makes the Case
By Chris Good Jan 6 2011, 2:06 PM ET 3
Members of the House, for the first time anyone can remember, read the Constitution aloud on the House floor to commemorate the beginning of a new Congress, one day after the 435 members were sworn in.
But they didn't read the whole Constitution, exactly: They read the document as amended. That left out, among other things, the three-fifths clause, which deemed slaves less than full people for population-counting purposes and was only eliminated by the Thirteenth Amendment and the abolition of slavery.
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., objected this morning on the House floor, and later today repeated his complaints in a written statement released by his office:
... Our expectation was that the new Republican majority would read the Constitution as written and its subsequent amendments. There is a broad body of law and interpretation that has developed from 1787 until the adoption of the last Amendment in 1992 that has turned our Constitution into a living document, paid for by the blood, sweat and tears of millions of Americans from the Revolutionary War, through the Civil War to even our current conflicts.
"The new Republican majority and their redacted Constitutional reading gives little deference to the long history of improving the Constitution and only seeks an interpretation of our Constitution based on the now, not the historic, broad body of law and struggle that it has taken to get there. It leaves out the need to continue to refine the Constitution so that we have a more perfect union. ...
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