Recently I've seen a number of postings of the US Constitution that I found interesting. The first was in The Virginian Pilot newspaper from Virginia Beach, VA after the new Tea Party congressmembers read the document into the record. The paper posted the body of the document without the Amendments. The second posting was in a Revolutionary Era historic site in Charleston, SC where again only the body of the document was posted; sans Amendments. I commented to myself at the posting and a lady sitting nearby commented that the Amendments were really not part of the document because of the time difference between the Constitution and the adding of the Bill of Rights a few years later. Is there some larger significance here? Do many people not consider the Amendments part of the Constitution? Is there some overall opposition to the Amendments? Did the reading in Congress recently include the Amendments?
(Source: on the posting of the Constitution; The Virginian Pilot on 1/10/11)
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