Why don't we recite the US Constitution.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Let's keep the Preamble; because there was nothing wrong with the goals... The goals have waited while the parties went to the toilet, and never returned...

Does anyone want to help me write a new constitution??? There must be something else we can save from the old one...

Article. I.

Section. 1.

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

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Let's keep the Preamble; because there was nothing wrong with the goals... The goals have waited while the parties went to the toilet, and never returned...

Does anyone want to help me write a new constitution??? There must be something else we can save from the old one...

No way! I like the old one. And I think the US has done pretty damn well overall since our Constitution was ratified.

I guess I just love my country more then you do. But, no, you can't screw around with its founding document.

Our founding document is the Declaration of Independence... It is strange how many people say they love the country but hate the people in it, or who only say they love the country because it offers the people so few protections from criminal exploitation... I care about the people, and I care about the people we injure as a country, and I care for all the people we might help if we could only help ourselves out of our slavery...

I have noticed that the Constitution of the United States has never been recited on Able2Know. As I am more patriotic than some other Americans around hear, I intend to fix this.

So I am starting this thread to recite the Constitution. Of course, although me and my circle of friends are more patriotic than other posters, I will allow others to join if they choose. I also realize there are non-Americans around here, but there is no reason that you can't acknowledge the foundational document of the greatest democracy [It was never a democracy.] that has ever existed.

Of course, we will be slightly modifying the constitution. There are part the founders put in the original document, that the founders wouldn't have intended if they were intending what we meant them to intend. We will skip the sections about black people being worth 3/5ths of a white person or congress regulating interstate trade between states that make us uncomfortable. Don't feel too bad about this, they did the same with Huck Finn and the Bible.

And there are ground rules of course, so as we can keep decorum. You should request to be recognized. Once you have been recognized you can post the next two or three sentences.

Just think of how righteous you will feel.

It was accepted and signed by the representatives of our government at the time... Learn some history dumass...

What, there isn't anyone who loves their country enough to mindless repeat the Constitution with me?

Funny thing, I just found out the new House just tried to do the same thing, with similar results (yes, those are empty Republican seats)

Or does this mean that reciting the Constitution in such a way is really nothing more then a self-righteous political stunt?

Why did they do this recitation anyway? I never quite understood what the political undercurrent was that prompted this reading. I figured it was some sort of political stunt/statement, but I lost track of who was doing it and why.

let's be real though, in the same way the dems suckered folks into thinking
they were getting everything for free, this stunt just makes folks think the teapublicans care

it's all carnies and rubes, you just have to pick your side of the midway