Have you ever read the entire US Constitution and all of the amendments?

Question

if so, did you comprehend the material and agree with it?
If not, why not?

Answer 1

I've read it several times, including the amendments. I can't say if I agreed with it because the Supreme Court continually tries to interpret meaning, phrases, etc., so I agree with my interpretation of it. I think it could've been clearer in some areas, but considering that it was written over 200 years ago, it's stood the test of time quite well.

Answer 2

Well yes, I have read it several times, but then, I work in the field of Supreme Court history.

In my experience, that question usually prefaced a statement of one sort or the other attesting to some particular passage and the meaning thereof.

Far brighter minds than my own apparently have had this same experience, and it prompted the late Justice Hugo L. Black to carry a pocket-sized copy on the constitution in his breast coat pocket. Given his particularly strident views on the First Amendment and other issues, he was often drawn into discussions that began with his adversary telling the Justice how wrong he was about this or that, and that the constitution said . . .

Thereupon it was usually the wont of the Justice, who rarely shied from a debate, to pull out his dog-eared copy and read from the section in question. With that firm basis for discussion in hand, he would then engage in an often lively discussion over the meaning of the words he read. An absolutist on many First Amendment issues, he was fond of pointing out that the language there specifically said "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Answer 3

I've read it and I think the writers of the Constitution did the best job they could at the time. At least they made it so it was amendable cause they knew things wouldn't always be like they were in colonial times.

Answer 4

I've actually attempted to read it many times in my life. I'm sad to admit that I just don't have the intelligence to be able to understand all of the rhetoric. The one thing I have learned is that Thomas Jefferson may have been the smartest man to ever live. His writings, still followed hundreds of years later, are still what makes our country stand above all other countries in our world.

Answer 5

Yes I did. I even memerized the preamble and article1 section 1 and 2

Answer 6

Yes, Yes

Answer 7

yes

Answer 8

false

Answer 9

i are with it i will fight 4 that tell i die

Answer 10

dont know