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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhatever happened to the Constitution?
Isn't it supposed to be a guide for how our government operates?
Is it out of print?
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Whatever happened to the Constitution? (Original Post)
milestogo
Jan 2020
OP
Starting with Gingrich and his disdain for the document, we are maybe at the end of the country.
Eliot Rosewater
Jan 2020
#3
It's hanging in a roll on the wall next to His Lardship's gold toilet.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jan 2020
#4
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)1. An answer in one word
Republicans.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)3. Starting with Gingrich and his disdain for the document, we are maybe at the end of the country.
I know, too much too soon, but we are.
We cant survive even if we take the government back from putin since near half the voters want a white country...
spanone
(135,832 posts)2. that's a book of rules that only apply to democrats
no joke
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,693 posts)4. It's hanging in a roll on the wall next to His Lardship's gold toilet.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)5. Congress abandoned the power to declare war many years ago.
And now we have an Imperial Presidency.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)6. I miss the three co-equal branches of government and that
checks and balances thingy.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)7. Agreed.
And McConnell has made the Senate a cheerleading troop for Trump.