Do citizens even understand what our Constitution is all about?

Question

It seems to me that our country has been overrun with weak Socialist thinking. Most people today don't understand the concept of the Separation of Powers of the three branches of our government. They always blame the administration for trashing the Constitution yet have no problem when the Supreme Court erases 150 years of precedent by robbing the Congress and the Executive branch of their efficacy. Many it seems have no problem with this as long as it furthers a Socialist point of view.

Answer 1

which country are you talking about, is it Nepal, the Philippines, India or Pakistan, all country i believe have the same problems

Answer 2

If citizens are to be engrossed with constitution, they may not have enough time to go about their regular life.

Answer 3

Our constitution is under a constant barrage of attacks from the left that are designed to make it obsolete.  Once it is obsolete we can use the U.N. laws and policies to run our country.  The way things are going, it won't be long before we are only a shadow of the country we were in the 1940's.  

So, yes, I feel that citizens understand the Constitution and what it is about, I just feel that they are trying to destroy it.

Answer 4

No Steve, most Americans have no idea about what the Constitution is all about. Since the beginning, Presidents have usurped the powers of Congress when they thought it was either right to do so or in their own selfish interest.

Most recently, we have entered into an undeclared war. The last time I looked, Congress must declare war. Didn't happen this time or in Vietnam! The fourth, fifth and sixth amendments have been gutted without an amendment to the document to eliminate or change them. All of this done in the name of security.

Much of this was done with a Republican Congress and a Republican President, so don't go off and call all of it socialist or liberal.

Before you think this is just an anti-Bush tirade, the Emancipation Proclamation was strictly speaking un-constitutional, way over-due, but unconstitutional as were the Mexican War, the Spanish American War, the Taft-Hartly act and much of Teddy Roosevelt's trust busting and FDR's new deal.

Answer 5

I have seen gobs of evidence that a lot of people have no idea what it says and, just as importantly, they don't understand how to interpret it.

But unlike you, I am far more concerned about the Supreme Court erasing state authority under the 14th Amendment than about interfering with the other two branches of the federal government.

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Answer 6

so in our current sitation, with the way our current government is run, where is the seperation of powers? It is non-existant. This isn't the people's fault.