17 September 2008

Happy Constitution Day


I will argue until I am blue in the face that the Constitution an exponentially more significant document than the Declaration of Independence. And as such we should have had a federal holiday today. Since I am not going to win the latter argument, please check out the National Constitution Center's interactive Constitution and interactive history, and then spend some time thinking about who and why it was crafted and how it has been amended, abused, and persevered for it's 221 years.

Also please read a recent survey that the Constitution Center released this week. Turns out we really don't like the idea of having a more powerful president. So Bush and his underlings can that unitary executive theory and smoke on it!


_John

image: "High-Resolution Constitution Page 1" from the National Archives

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