The Tea Party will never understand the Constitution:
What the right misses about its favorite document GOP candidates constantly invoke the Constitution. A Yale Law professor reveals what they all fail to understand Salon
By Elias Isquith
Tuesday, Apr 21, 2015 04:45 PM EDT
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/21/the_tea_party_will_never_understand_the_constitution_what_the_right_misses_about_its_favorite_document/With the 2016 election cycle having kicked into first-gear already, any American who hasn’t inured themselves to the monotonous (and often ultimately meaningless) repetition of the word “Constitution” is advised to get to self-desensitizing — and quick.
Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz have already made a fetishized version of the U.S.’s supreme governing document central to their campaign rhetoric; and even politicians less beloved by the supposedly Constitution-crazy Tea Party, like Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton, are likely to soon follow suit. That’s how American politics functions now, in the era of the NSA, Guantanamo Bay, lethal drone strikes and endless war.
But as that list of questionable policies suggests, there’s an unanswered question lurking behind so much of our happy talk about the Constitution — namely, do we even understand it? As dozens of polls and public surveys will attest, the answer is, not really. And that’s one of the reasons that Yale Law School professor Akhil Reed Amar has decided to write a multi-book series about the Constitution so many Americans claim to love, but so few seem to understand. “The Law of the Land: A Grand Tour of our Constitutional Republic,” released earlier this month, is that project’s latest addition.
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http://www.salon.com/2015/04/21/the_tea_party_will_never_understand_the_constitution_what_the_right_misses_about_its_favorite_document/Gal, after this election it is you and the left who do not understand the constitution. Did you see the TEA PARTY out in the streets rioting and doing nasty things. Got a mirror.