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Thu 6 Jan, 2011 05:19 pm
read the constitution. seriously, I never did.
i've seen a picture of the USS Constitution
@dyslexia,
didn't look like they had a lot of fun .
probably had a choice : stand in the corner or read the constitution .
Quote:Huck Finning the Constitution
By Adam Serwer
Earlier this week, there was an uproar over a publisher's plans to release an edition of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that would replace the N-word with the word "slave" in order to make the book more "appropriate" for schoolchildren. This kind of political correctness offers no justice to the descendants of slaves -- it merely papers over a terrible ugliness that is an essential part of American history.
Republicans, intending to make a big symbolic show of their reading of the Constitution, have now taken a similarly sanitized approach to our founding document. Yesterday they announced that they will be leaving out the superceded text in their reading of the Constitution on the House floor this morning, avoiding the awkwardness of having to read aloud the "three fifths compromise," which counted slaves as only three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and apportionment.
@djjd62,
I'd hate to iron it, even one side would wear me out.
@dyslexia,
I signed it once in a past life, I could tell you all about it (ha)
@dyslexia,
as a wise man once said, it's a small world, but i wouldn't want to paint it
@djjd62,
Another one said 'You can't have everything, where would you put it?'
I read much of the Constitution, in 1955, for an 8TH grade history class.
@edgarblythe,
As I recall, in our school, at least, you could not pass the 8TH grade without passing a test on the Constitution.
I have a copy that I sometimes read portion of.
I've heard the movie is better.
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