Opinion

Wanted: Critical reading skills We have been told for ages that the President is permitted to make a “recess” appointment of someone whose nomination has already been blocked by the Senate (Article II, Sec. 2, clause 3); that once the Senate goes into recess, the President may slip in there and make a “recess” appointment of his rejected nominee!

Examples of reading amendment language. We’ll provide the interpretation.

When I was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology decades ago, Cambridge’s Kendall Square was a grubby, run-down warehouse district. Today, it’s known as the most innovative square mile on the planet.

Be very careful what you wish for regarding amendments. They can appear ideal and appeal to our desperation, but in reality, mean exactly the opposite. I will illustrate some of those in a later “Minute”.

WASHINGTON, DC – The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution urges Americans to reflect on the United States Constitution during this month’s annual observance in honor this foundational document of national governance.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has stopped talking so much about inflation worries. His remarks in Columbus, Ohio, in suburban Washington at a Democratic fundraiser, at a Cabinet meeting and in Labor Day speeches in Milwaukee and Pittsburgh were all missing a once-common refrain about families at the kitchen table straining under the rising costs of food and gasoline.

Heed the words of Daniel Webster in his 4th of July Oration, 1802: “The politician that undertakes to improve a Constitution with as little thought as a farmer sets about mending his plow is no master of his trade. If that Constitution be a systematic one, if it be a free one, its parts are so necessarily connected that an alteration in one will work an alteration in all; and this cobbler, however pure and honest his intentions, will, in the end, find that what came to his hands a fair and lovely fabric goes from them a miserable piece of patchwork.”

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What would happen if we turned over a new leaf and voted only for “what”, not “who”? The “what” is the Constitution. It should be the standard by which we measure our candidates for votes.