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   From: impeach_obama@yahoo.com   
      
   Charles Osgood, the host of CBS Sunday Morning, shocked many   
   viewers when he introduced a segment that called for the   
   abolishment of the U.S. Constitution.   
      
   “Is the U.S. Constitution truly worthy of the reverence in which   
   most Americans hold it,” Osgood asked his viewers.   
      
   He then introduced Georgetown University Professor Louis Michael   
   Seidman — who launched into a lengthy essay bashing the Founding   
   Fathers and the Constitution.   
      
   “I’ve got a simple idea: Let’s give up on the Constitution,” he   
   said.   
      
   Seidman is a professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown. He   
   said Constitutional disobedience is “as American as apple pie.”   
      
   “If we are to take back our own country, we have to start making   
   decisions for ourselves, and stop deferring to an ancient and   
   outdated document,” he said.   
      
   The segment ended without any objections from Osgood.   
      
   (CBS News) Is the U.S. Constitution truly worthy of the   
   reverence in which most Americans hold it? A view on that from   
   Louis Michael Seidman, Professor of Constitutional Law at   
   Georgetown University:   
      
   I’ve got a simple idea: Let’s give up on the Constitution.   
      
   I know, it sounds radical, but it’s really not. Constitutional   
   disobedience is as American as apple pie.   
      
   For example, most of our greatest Presidents — Jefferson,   
   Lincoln, Wilson, and both Roosevelts — had doubts about the   
   Constitution, and many of them disobeyed it when it got in their   
   way.   
      
   To be clear, I don’t think we should give up on everything in   
   the Constitution. The Constitution has many important and   
   inspiring provisions, but we should obey these because they are   
   important and inspiring, not because a bunch of people who are   
   now long-dead favored them two centuries ago.   
      
   Unfortunately, the Constitution also contains some provisions   
   that are not so inspiring. For example, one allows a   
   presidential candidate who is rejected by a majority of the   
   American people to assume office. Suppose that Barack Obama   
   really wasn’t a natural-born citizen. So what?   
      
   Constitutional obedience has a pernicious impact on our   
   political culture. Take the recent debate about gun control.   
   None of my friends can believe it, but I happen to be skeptical   
   of most forms of gun control.   
      
   I understand, though, that’s not everyone’s view, and I’m eager   
   to talk with people who disagree.   
      
   But what happens when the issue gets Constitutional-ized? Then   
   we turn the question over to lawyers, and lawyers do with it   
   what lawyers do. So instead of talking about whether gun control   
   makes sense in our country, we talk about what people thought of   
   it two centuries ago.   
      
   Worse yet, talking about gun control in terms of constitutional   
   obligation needlessly raises the temperature of political   
   discussion. Instead of a question on policy, about which   
   reasonable people can disagree, it becomes a test of one’s   
   commitment to our foundational document and, so, to America   
   itself.   
      
   This is our country. We live in it, and we have a right to the   
   kind of country we want. We would not allow the French or the   
   United Nations to rule us, and neither should we allow people   
   who died over two centuries ago and knew nothing of our country   
   as it exists today.   
      
   If we are to take back our own country, we have to start making   
   decisions for ourselves, and stop deferring to an ancient and   
   outdated document.   
      
   http://nation.foxnews.com/cbs-news/2013/01/28/political-   
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