How much of the US Constitution have you read or are familiar with?

Just wondering myself: Whether you learned it in grade school or class or whether you just know it from reading yourself: “How much of the US constitution have you read yourself” or are personally familiar with? Me personally, I seem to remember SOME of the Bill of Rights pretty well, I remember:

1. Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Press Freedom of Religion?

2. Right to Bear Arms

3. Protection from unwanted searches or seizures

5. “The Fifth Amendment” or “I plead the Fifth”: Right to not incriminate yourself?

6. Right to a Fair Trial

7. No Cruel and Unusual Punishments!!


Like I said, I know that’s not “all of the bill of rights”: But think that’s about what I remembered from the US Constitution! What about yourself?? How much of the Constitution are you personally familiar with or read and know about yourself? Did I leave out anything else important or something else you remember from it!!???

 

What is the point if Trump is not reading the constitution.

There been large protest and he is sending in the police and marines.

They also search your phone and electronic devices at the border.

 

I'm fast on the toilet, a Taoist thing, and never bothered to get past "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Money!"

 

Fuck trump but to act like the government has only started destroying the bill of rights under him is crazy. The whole system is fucked need to rare it down to the studs and start again

 

I 've memorized it, it's only 4 444 words long. But then, I did swear an oath to preserve, protect and defend it, with my life if necessary. Funny how people can memorize their lines for a school play, and remember them years later, but not the Constitution.

 

Not much actually but the bit I know very well as it is almost constantly in the news or talked about is "The right to bear arms". It needs to be seriously revisedor removed entirely. It was written in different times and it has definitely not made a so called great country greater. It actually guarantees that America will never be truly great if that piece of insanity is not dealt with.

 

The Bill of rights was added as the first 10 Amendments, in the belief that these rights were God given and unalienable. The Founders argued on the one hand that, if they were included, someday some idiot would try to repeal them. Others said it made a statement about our belief in the most basic rights of man. As these rights are in fact God given, they can no more be repealed than can the laws of gravity or thermodynamics. Yes, someday I expect those laws to be held up to the "wisdom" of those who will try.

 

I've read all of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, and am at least passingly familiar with their contents.

 

I dont think God would be a fan of guns. It is actually rather arrogant to believe God gave anyone the right to be a gun toting idiot.

 

"The Constitution preserves the advantages of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation…(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms”

James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46

 

Psalm 144:1
“Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.”

 

And the US is a shining light for trusting people with guns? What is the body count per year for a country that isnt in a civil war? No one in the civilian population should so easily bear arms. It is madness.

 

The bible is full of contradictions. Thou shall not kill is a pretty clear statement.

 

insanity rules I guess.

 

A small point of fact, the Bill of Rights isn't something any government entity bestowed upon the people. In fact they were never the governments to give. Instead, the (new at that time) government simply acknowledged them as God given rights and promised never to try and infringe upon them.

{"....the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"}

 

But that mostly the Republican Party that hold those views.