#1224 Constituent Tooting

Some nimrod was on TV the other day saying the census was unconstitutional.
I’m not entirely sure many who wave the Constitution really get the whole idea of what it is. A couple of factoids. It was firstly a multi-partisan compromise document, hammered together by a bunch of white males, some of them Christian, some of them agnostic. One of its chief goals was to make it difficult for any person to take over and call himself king.
They also understood, very wisely, that it was important to count people for purposes of taxation and representation, not necessarily in that order. So in the third paragraph of the main Constitution they called for a census every ten years.
One of the provisions of our great founding fathers, by the way, was to count black slaves as two-thirds of a person when it came to census counting.
Kind of takes the glow off that all-seeing all-knowing founding father halo doesn’t it?
After awhile the faultless document was complete. Well not actually. It wasn’t able to be ratified until they added some amendments. Yes, I know it’s hard for strict constitutionalists to believe, but the perfect document of the Constitution almost immediately needed amendment. The founding fathers forgot a couple of things.
Okay, ten.
They added those amendments and called them the Bill of Rights. Including the famous “right to bear arms” the 2nd amendment people love so well.
Ironic how some of those who take great pride in defending the 2nd amendment think that the 15th and 19th amendments are abominations.
(Those would be the amendments that gave non-whites and women the vote.)
I guess you could say they keep what they want, at their beck and call, and choose to ignore the rest.
Their constitution is more of a constant choosin.
America, ya gotta love it.