Do you know your Consitution?

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[+4] - Setanta - 10/12/2014The great world traveler displayed his typical ignorance--but you didn't answer the question. I doubt that you went into a "Tom" Horton's anywere in Canada.
[+3] - cicerone imposter - 10/12/2014You asked the question; I answered. It does not matter to me who Tim Horton was.

@bobsal u1553115,

I "aced the quiz".

I missed one -- the question about the Anti-Federalists.

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@boomerang,

Missed one, too. Forget which one. I didn't even get the anti-Federalist question!

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@bobsal u1553115,

Huh.

I might have to take it again to see if I get different questions!

Ninja edit: It won't let me take it again.

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@boomerang,

I wanted to check it out, too.

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That was too easy.

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@Setanta,

Did you check out the charts on the bottom? There's a lot of folks who couldn't pass it.

Plus, you ARE smarter than the average bear!

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Aced it.

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What Setanta said. There's not a single trick question there really.

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@Lustig Andrei,

I screwed up on several, but the one that I missed on the president's right to declare war has been done. I always thought the president can declare war as the CIC but congress must fund it.

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@cicerone imposter,

This is one of those things that probably only a lawyer can understand fully, Tak. The Constitution very clearly gives the power to declare war only to Congress. However, the Congress has seen fit to allow the President, as Commander in Chief of the armed forces, to deploy troops to combat missions without a formal declaration of war. The last declared war that this country was engaged in was World War II. Technically, we haven't been at war anywhere since 1945.

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@Lustig Andrei,

Sounds like a bunch of redefinition of war.

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@cicerone imposter,

Yeah, the key word here is 'declare.' The President can actually order a war to be fought (as long as Congress agrees to keep funding it) but he cannot 'declare' it a war. As I said, it probably takes a shyster lawyer to fully appreciate the distinction here.

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That test must have been the Constitution for Kindergarteners
or maybe for brand new immigrants.

David

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@Lustig Andrei,

Lustig Andrei wrote:

Yeah, the key word here is 'declare.'
The President can actually order a war to be fought
(as long as Congress agrees to keep funding it) but he cannot 'declare' it a war.

OF COURSE. That 's the whole point.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it require
that war must be DECLARED before it is fought.
If Congress doesn 't like the idea, it just won 't fund it.

When the Indians raided,
were we going to apply to Congress b4 we fight back?????

Lustig Andrei wrote:

As I said, it probably takes a shyster lawyer
to fully appreciate the distinction here.

O, get out of here, Andy.
Kids know that b4 thay reach jr. hi school.

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I do, it's unwritten.

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@bobsal u1553115,

Aced it.

Got the one about the guarantees of the first amendment wrong.

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

I do, it's unwritten.

How do u know what 's in it??

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@OmSigDAVID,

Tradition and history. We've got a lot of that.

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@izzythepush,

We r more secure
in parsing specific grammatical text.

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