[TheForge] Constitution (ot)

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In a message dated 02-06-20 20:19:42 EDT, you write:

<< But most all
 teaching of constitution ended in or about 1970, so even the cops you
 have sworn to uphold the constitution have never read it.>>

I was born in 1970.  Was required to study the Constitution -- and pass an 
exam on it -- in order to graduate high school.  Public high school, St. 
Louis, MO.  Memory indicates this was state law.
 
  <<  People all say the Constitution "gives us rights"... Re-read the
 parts written by the original authors.  They clearly state in the
 preamble, (and I'm going to butcher this , my copy doesn't have the
 preamble)  "All men are endowed by their creator with certain
 inalienable rights."  >>

No, it doesn't.  That's is from the Preamble to the Declaration of 
Independance.  The Preamble of the Constitution goes:

"We the people of the United States of America, in order to form a more 
perfect Union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for 
the common defense, promote the genreal welfare and insure the blessings of 
Liberty, to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain an establish this 
Constitution, for the United States of America"

You can thank the aforementioned class, and School House Rock, for that being 
imbedded in my mind.

Jerry V