Teaching the Constitution is one of my favorite areas for my 8th graders. You get a floodgate of questions and wide eyed looks that inspires you. Heck, it's the first thing I downloaded on PDA
betmo, I posted the Bill of Rights the other day, and noted where they've been violated by this administration.
Congress is to make the laws; the Judicial Branch is to interperet those laws; the President executes those laws. We have a President who has decided he will incorporate those duties into his own office: he will decide which laws to follow; he will interperet to his own benefit. He is The Decider, after all.
Bush & Company blatantly disregard the Constitution. They blantantly disregard not only the Bill of Rights, but all other ammendments that have passed. There are grounds for Impeachment, of both Bush and Cheney.
diva- pop, i agree with both of you. impeachment is not an option at this point as much as it is called for. i wish cheney would be the one to get impeached but he has such a tight hold on things in washington that that will never happen. we have to concentrate on working around the gerrymandering fiasco that delay made and the court upheld and get out the word to vote. we have to get people to excercise their duty to vote. it is the only thing short of a new civil war that will stop this machine. i for one would rather try the voting thing first.
to continue- i forgot my train of thought- now the admin has decided that we should not be held to international law either. we don't feel that the geneva convention nor the international war crimes laws apply to us anymore. heck- we don't even abide by military law. sounds a bit like anarchy or dicatatorship to me. my personal theory is that now we have international info- banking and whatnot- they really will feel invincible. my lovely assistant sophie says "meow."
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Teaching the Constitution is one of my favorite areas for my 8th graders. You get a floodgate of questions and wide eyed looks that inspires you.
Heck, it's the first thing I downloaded on PDA
Everyone should be required to read it and, and, and. LIVE BY IT
We'll begin with the people in the white house, if they haven't tossed all their copies in the round file.
betmo, I posted the Bill of Rights the other day, and noted where they've been violated by this administration.
Congress is to make the laws; the Judicial Branch is to interperet those laws; the President executes those laws. We have a President who has decided he will incorporate those duties into his own office: he will decide which laws to follow; he will interperet to his own benefit. He is The Decider, after all.
Bush & Company blatantly disregard the Constitution. They blantantly disregard not only the Bill of Rights, but all other ammendments that have passed. There are grounds for Impeachment, of both Bush and Cheney.
diva- pop, i agree with both of you. impeachment is not an option at this point as much as it is called for. i wish cheney would be the one to get impeached but he has such a tight hold on things in washington that that will never happen. we have to concentrate on working around the gerrymandering fiasco that delay made and the court upheld and get out the word to vote. we have to get people to excercise their duty to vote. it is the only thing short of a new civil war that will stop this machine. i for one would rather try the voting thing first.
to continue- i forgot my train of thought- now the admin has decided that we should not be held to international law either. we don't feel that the geneva convention nor the international war crimes laws apply to us anymore. heck- we don't even abide by military law. sounds a bit like anarchy or dicatatorship to me. my personal theory is that now we have international info- banking and whatnot- they really will feel invincible. my lovely assistant sophie says "meow."
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