Happy Constitution Day to All!

[mrgoob]

Constitution Day commemorates the formation and signing of the U.S. Constitution by thirty-nine brave men on September 17, 1787, recognizing all who have become citizens.

 

[Radar]

Yep let’s hope we can keep it alive another 231 years

 

[Bailey Boat]

Yep let’s hope we can keep it alive another 231 years

Hell, at the rate the Dems are moving let's hope for a year at a time!!! 231 would be shooting (pun intended) for the moon..

 

[HMP]

Constitution Day commemorates the formation and signing of the U.S. Constitution by thirty-nine brave men on September 17, 1787, recognizing all who are born in the U.S. or by naturalization, have become citizens.

Ehhhh...
While the Constitution, the greatest in the world, was signed that day, I cant get behind that second part about 'all who are born in the US...become citizens' bit
Something tells me tens of thousands (hundreds?) of blacks would have issue with that part

But sucks that we were out today, I was looking forward to talking about it in class (that it was the anniversary), I'll just mention it tomorrow

 

[mrgoob]

Ehhhh...
While the Constitution, the greatest in the world, was signed that day, I cant get behind that second part about 'all who are born in the US...become citizens' bit
Something tells me tens of thousands (hundreds?) of blacks would have issue with that part

But sucks that we were out today, I was looking forward to talking about it in class (that it was the anniversary), I'll just mention it tomorrow

That was a definition I pulled off the internet. Changed it to a different one. Whites might have an issue as well as many were not citizens until the Naturalization Act.

 

[Stick]

That was a definition I pulled off the internet. Changed it to a different one. Whites might have an issue as well as many were not citizens until the Naturalization Act.

The problem is not in the Constitution, it is in the way the 14th amendment is written. The original intent was to prevent States from denying citizenship to freed slaves after the War of Northern Aggression. At that time there were no immigration laws, so the concept of an illegal immigrant never occurred to them. It might be possible to fix the 14th, but once you open the door to re-writing amendments, well, you are going to be tap dancing in a minefield for sure. Plus, you could count the politicians with the cajones to take this one on on the fingers of one hand.

https://www.14thamendment.us/index.html

 

[SPM]

The more and more I have read, it is plainly evident that the Constitution itself was a bloodless coup that betrayed the Spirit of '76 and what that generation fought for, and in almost every criticism of the document, the Antifederalists were right.