Hannah Braunlin
Joined: 29 Mar 2011
Posts: 3
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 Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:26 am Post subject: |
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I attempted a post right before 10:30 then promptly closed my computer... I just realized that the post was never submitted. SORRY. anyway.. this is what i wrote last night, not that it really matters now.
Until a few days ago, I too was one of the 72% that had never read the constitution in its entirety. However, I am not ashamed to admit it because, although I am very happy to have read the constitution and feel I am better off for doing so, I am not a person who regularly has to back up my ideas or statements with evidence from this document. I would however, be ashamed if I were a politician who based their ideas off of the constitution and was not able to accurately quote even the preamble (the preamble is the one part of the constitution that I know word for word), and I would feel even greater shame if in the same situation tried to base ideas off of parts of the constitution that were simply not there. Unfortunately, as this article points out, there are many politicians who do this on a regular basis, and it appalls me that someone who claims to base ideas of a document could know so little about what it is actually saying. |
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