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Time: You conservatives don’t understand the Constitution the way we brilliant liberals do. Conservative bloggers: Dude, you made 13 factual errors in your claims!

This is pure comedy gold!

See, Time wants you to know that liberals like them are totally educated when it comes to the Constitution.  They’re so brilliant that they…commit at least thirteen verifiable errors in fact in their recent article, cleverly entitled “One Document, Under Seige“.

If the Constitution is “under seige”, it’s from the constitutional illiterates and lazy morons at Time.

You must read this blog post, which does an awesomely McAwesome job taking down the leftists at Time.  Seriously, read it.  Keep in mind, we’re not talking errors of interpretation, such as whether the Second Amendment confers an individual right to bear arms.  We’re talking stuff like this:

False Claim #2: The Constitution is not law.

The relevant passage:

Originalists contend that the Constitution has a clear, fixed meaning. But the framers argued vehemently about its meaning. For them, it was a set of principles, not a code of laws. A code of laws says you have to stop at the red light; a constitution has broad principles that are unchanging but that must accommodate each new generation and circumstance.

(emphasis added)

Proof that he is wrong: Again, the Constitution itself contradicts this claim. Article VI, Paragraph 2:

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land[.]

And of course in my long fisking piece, I cite several passages from Marbury v. Madison that is on point as well, but the Constitution is enough.

Time claims that the law of the land isn’t The Law of the Land! 

And this:

False Claim #3: The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment emancipated the slaves.

The relevant passage:

In drafting the 14th Amendment, Congress was definitely not thinking about illegal immigration. At the time, the country needed a lot more immigrants, legal or otherwise. Congress was thinking more practically. It wanted to emancipate blacks and allow them to vote so that white Southern Democrats would not try to reverse the gains of the Civil War.

(emphasis added)

Proof that he is wrong: The amendment that emancipated the slaves was the thirteenth. (Duh.)

And notice for bonus points that he is conflating slaves and black people. Not all black people were slaves prior to the Civil War.

I guess all black people look alike to the pinkos at Time.  And 13th, 14th…h3ll, it’s all the same, right?

The most egregious of these claims is Claim #1, which is that the Constitution doesn’t put any limits on the federal government.  Read any single one of the Bill of Rights amendments, and you’ll see a ton of “Congress shall make no law…” and similar references…which are darned apparent of limits placed on the federal government to anyone with a cursory grasp of the English language.

We’ve always known that liberals don’t know a friggin’ thing about the Constitution, and they don’t care to, since they wipe their backsides with it on a daily basis.  They quote it when they think it suits their needs, and as Time proves, they can’t even quote it correctly.

Feel free to dismiss leftists whenever they bring up the Constitution.  Arguing with them about the Constitution is like arguing with a toddler about quantum physics: he doesn’t understand the words coming out of your mouth.

June 28, 2011 - Posted by crushliberalism | Constitution, media bias