Is the Constitution still relevant?

Question

If so then why are school children not taught about it? Is it because it goes against the socialist ideas of UNESCO. You do realize that the "No Child left behind" program is sponsored by the UN don't you?

Democrat, Spelling is not your long suit is it? My Name is Ethan. As for the Kook comment I would really like to know what you mean.

S. If you can't understand what I am saying then maybe your are the Idiot.

Answer 1

To AMERICANS it ALWAYS will be.

Answer 2

The Consitution is absolutely silent on the ideas of socialism or capitalism.

And I do not know if school children are still taught about it. I sure hope they are. But what is your evidence they are not taught about it,.

Meanwhile, the way we treat the Constitutuon confuses me. my reading of it, for example, is that the USA cannot go to war with a declaration of war from Congress--but Jefferson went to war with Tripoli in 1801 just lie that. It's al little late to attack W. now for something that's been going on since the third presidential adminstration.

But I do not understand why you say the Constitution goes against the socialist ideas of UNECSCO. All I remember the Const. say about property is you can't take it away from a traitor's family by acts of bill & attainder and that it can only be taken away by due process of law.

Answer 3

You UN haters!

They aren't taught about it because Bush never funded it!

I don't think you are telling the truth and I don't see any documentation or study accompanying your outlandish statement.

It was Bush thae got the Patriot Act passed. Bush has gotten the Military Commissions Act of 2006 which strips habeas corpus and 3 of the constitutional amendments!

Bush hates the constitution, thinks it is "just another piece of paper" and hires Conzalez!


San Francisco Chronicle"
Gonzales says the Constitution doesn't guarantee habeas corpus
Attorney general's remarks on citizens' right astound the chair of Senate judiciary panel
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

One of the Bush administration's most far-reaching assertions of government power was revealed quietly last week when Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified that habeas corpus -- the right to go to federal court and challenge one's imprisonment -- is not protected by the Constitution.

"The Constitution doesn't say every individual in the United States or every citizen is hereby granted or assured the right of habeas,'' Gonzales told Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Jan. 17.
Gonzales acknowledged that the Constitution declares "habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless ... in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.'' But he insisted that "there is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution.''

Specter was incredulous, asking how the Constitution could bar the suspension of a right that didn't exist -- a right, he noted, that was first recognized in medieval England as a shield against the king's power to dispatch troublesome subjects to royal dungeons. ...

Bruce Fein, a former Reagan Justice Department attorney who has become an outspoken critic of the Bush administration, noted that the day before his Judiciary Committee appearance, Gonzales had denounced "activist judges'' and advised them to stay out of national security matters.

Gonzales' comments to the committee on habeas corpus, Fein said, contained a message that "Congress doesn't have to let them (judges) decide national security matters.''
"It's part of an attempt to create the idea that during conflicts, the three branches of government collapse into one, and it is the president,'' Fein said.

Quit blaming the UN! It is Bush who has been going after the Constitution and every treaty since he has been in office!

Answer 4

How can the "No Child left behind" program be UNESCO? The Chimp talked it up during the campaign and then after the election he pulled all the funding out of it and it was renamed "No Child Left With A Dime" !

Answer 5

It's still relevant unless we want to become a third world country. Examples--- take away our right to vote and to keep and bare arms and we would be () that far away from living in a country ruled like Cuba, North Korea, Nazi Germany or Communist Russia. The Constitution is our outline for freedom. That's why it's worth fighting to keep, whether it be against a foreign country or our own politicians and judges that want to change it or make up the rules to suit themselves.

Answer 6

Ethan, 'your' is the possessive as in 'it belongs to you'. 'You're' is short for 'you are'.

Just looking out for you, money. Don't want you looking like an idiot while you're (notice that?) trying to stir the pot with your (there's the other one) s*&t.

As for your comment, we might want to remind our leaders of the broad strokes of the constitution before we worry about the children.

Answer 7

Bush and the repulsican congress shot more holes in our Constitution than Dick Cheney put in his lawyer. And you cannot blame that on anyone else.

They apparently don't teach you recent history in your 2nd grade class.

Answer 8

the constitution is taught in elementary school, middle school, and a whole course in 11th and 12th grade.

Answer 9

Constitution must be still relevant but bush obviously bush does not obide by it. so look at the president instead!!

Answer 10

Last time I looked, we were following it to the letter.

Answer 11

yes it is still relevant. if they do not teach about it in the school's then why is my grandson having a test about it on Monday