![]() ![]() This follows up yesterday’s post on widespread ignorance of where, exactly, the Constitution separates church and state, and what amendment Roe v. That’s what I talk about too.] Continue reading → | Tagged American history, Bill of Rights, civil rights, Garry Wills, James Madison, Second Amendment, U.S. ![]() This connects with what Michael Moore was talking about on CNN the other night, and with some sort of weird madness, some immature love of fantasy, that sometimes seems hardwired into the American psyche. ![]() Such perspective may be our only hope for improving matters that we actually do have the power to improve it might help us stop “constitutionalizing” every political dispute we have. And I’m not, literally, holding Madison responsible for problems he couldn’t have foreseen - I’m trying to turn up the volume - to eleven - on what I think we desperately need, in this dire moment: some grown-up perspective on the strange, bumpy, sometimes shabby, all-too-human, all-too-political processes by which our rights were first secured by our Constitution. But that’s not because I’m so deluded as to believe he was trying to protect an individual right to keep and bear arms!ģ. ![]()
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