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Our Enduring Constitution?
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September 17th is Constitution Day, a day marked to honor and commemorate the 222nd anniversary of our United States Constitution. The enduring nature of our Constitution is, historically speaking, a remarkable achievement. For example, the French are working off their fifth constitution since the Revolution of 1789, and their current constitution only dates back to the 1950’s. In that sense, our Constitution is enduring. But have our courts, over the years, applying the philosophy of a “living Constitution,” infused so much “life” into it that it no longer really endures? |
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Context Means Everything; Context Means Nothing
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Have you ever heard someone say something which, if taken out of context, could be taken to mean something completely different? I hate to admit there were often snickers when 80-plus-year-old former Speaker John Wilder would say into his microphone, “Turn Senator Harper (a woman) on.” Of course, he was directing the Clerk to turn on her microphone so she could be heard, but out of context, it could have had the tongues of “talking heads” wagging for sure. And statements taken out of context have been used by judicial activist to rewrite our constitution. We want to help set the record straight. |
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Pray It Ain't So, Joe!
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Last year, the Santa Rosa County (Fla.) School District resolved litigation by the ACLU over prayer at school by unnecessarily agreeing to prohibit prayer at all school-sponsored events and even prohibit all employees from engaging in prayer. Now the school principal and athletic director are facing criminal contempt charges because a prayer was offered before a meal at a luncheon to honor private contributors to the athletic program, at which no students were present. Just crazy. But don’t think that there aren’t folks who would like to see clearly constitutional prayers stopped in Tennessee. They showed up in Memphis last week. |
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