Monday, August 1, 2016

Mr. Khan Was Probably Right: Trump Hasn't Read the Constitution

Donald Trump’s private meeting [on July 7] with Senate Republicans — designed to foster greater party unity ahead of the national convention in Cleveland — grew combative...

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Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) left the meeting worried about Trump’s grasp on the basics of the Constitution. At a lunch with reporters afterward, he recalled that the candidate did not seem to know what he was promising to defend.

“I wasn’t particularly impressed,” Sanford said. “It was the normal stream of consciousness that’s long on hyperbole and short on facts. At one point, somebody asked about Article I powers: What will you do to protect them? I think his response was, ‘I want to protect Article I, Article II, Article XII,’ going down the list. There is no Article XII.”

  
If he's going to be president, why is he singling out certain articles anyway? I'm pretty sure he's going to have to take an oath to preserve and protect the entire constitution.

Probably not too many of us, unless we're constitutional lawyers/scholars, political science students, politicians or historians are really actually very familiar with our consitution. I'm reminded of my trip to Venezuela.  If you came upon a citizen who was also a supporter of then-president Hugo Chavez, and that citizen had a pocket, in that pocket was a copy of the Venezuelan constitution.  They knew what it said, and they could bring it out for an argument or confirmation if need be.

We don't even seem to care much any more if we lose the rights given to us in our own.  I guess we don't need them.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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