Think you don't understand the Constititon?

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Don't feel bad, the new VP elect doesn't either!!
Cheney Mocks Biden, Defends Rumsfeld in 'FOX News Sunday' Interview (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/21/cheney-mocks-biden-defends-rumsfeld-fox-news-sunday-interview/)
In one of his last interviews before leaving Washington, D.C., Vice President Cheney, a 40-year veteran of Washington politics, tried to straighten out a few misconceptions about his tenure and the way the executive and legislative branches are supposed to work.

By Bill Sammon
FOXNews.com
Sunday, December 21, 2008

Vice President Cheney mocked Vice President-elect Joe Biden's grasp of the Constitution, defended former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and said President Bush "doesn't have to check with anybody" before launching a nuclear attack.

In a blunt, unapologetic interview on "FOX News Sunday," Cheney fired back at Biden for declaring in October that "Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history."

"He also said that all the powers and responsibilities of the executive branch are laid out in Article I of the Constitution," Cheney said in a interview that was conducted on Friday. "Well, they're not. Article I of the Constitution is the one on the legislative branch."

"Joe's been chairman of the Judiciary Committee, a member of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate for 36 years, teaches constitutional law back in Delaware, and can't keep straight which article of the Constitution provides for the legislature and which provides for the executive.

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Watch out folks, we've got a Democrat controlled Congress who doesn't believe in the Second Amendment, and an incoming Vice President who doesn't even know which Article of the Constitution covers which branch of government or what the Executive can and cannot do.

One would think that with PEBO having taught ConLaw for 10 years and VPEB who also teaches ConLaw, that they might know at least a little something about the Constitution. I guess actually knowing something about it isn't considered to be necessary before being allowed to teach it.

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That should be obvious - and not only to those who have actually taken courses in Constitutional law. After all, it's nothing but an old piece of parchment, honored more as a relic and a curiosity from a bygone, largely misunderstood era - isn't it? It should not be necessary to point out that were there even minimal comprehension of the Constitution among the great unwashed, many of our 'laws' would be stricken from the books (or have never progressed beyond initial suggestion), and an entirely different slate of candidates been available.

When asked what form of government the Constitutional Convention had given us, Benjamin Franklin is reputed to have replied: "A republic, madam, if you can keep it." We have obviously failed to keep it, and have gotten the government the lowest common denominator - fueled by indoctrination in government schools by those with the greatest desire to destroy it - deserve.

Those with even a basic comprehension of the document also understand Jefferson's admonitions:

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive."

Were this not patently obvious to anyone with two live neurons to rub together, would there be so much effort devoted to instilling conformity and subservience?

"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."

One look at B. Hussein's eyes as he read his victory speech underlines this beyond any need to expound further.

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

One can only judge a tyrant by his rise to power - or a patriot by his response.

Only time will tell if there are sufficient patriots to salvage the Constitution while those few shreds remaining in force still have meaning. Once they die, so does the 'great experiment', and the nation we swore to protect and defend: Many of us recall the date and time we were released from our obligation to do so as a member of the military - do any imagine they were released from that solemn oath?