us constitution

Not being a constitutional lawyer, or even an American, or even being to America (I plan on doing that next month however, so it's a point in my favour), I can't profess to being that educated on the constitution, so forgive me. But what is the meaning of 'respecting' in 'Shall make no law...

I had an interesting discussion on this topic the other day, and thought as my first thread to bring up the topic here. There was a similar thread back in 2006, but I wasn't here then, and rather than resurrect the old thread I decided to start a new one. So, if you could make changes to the...

Since I'm heavily campaigning for Dr. No, I thought it might be a good idea to learn a little bit more about that funny thing called "the United States Constitution". Fortunately I found a series of Videos in which a guy actually explains all the nasty officialese in it. So if you don't...

This is a thread generated by a discussion started over in Conspiracy Theories (seriously!). Over there, warlexz53 and I started a discussion on which parts of the U.S. Constitution could be considered valid and invalid, and why. Warlexz53 feels that the income tax is invalid, as the founding...

A little arcane maybe...? ------------------------- Amendment III No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Today, December 15th, is the 212th anniversary of the adoption of our Bill of Rights, the first Ten Amendments to the Constitution as ratified this day, December 15, 1791. Many of the Founders objected to listing the Bill or Rights as "amendments" because it might be construed that such rights...

I came across a thread with this topic on the SDMB and found the discussion so interesting that I thought I'd like to hear which of the amendments to the US Constitution comprising the Bill of Rights JREF's US posters would repeal if for some arbitrary reason they had to vote for the repeal of...

I was having a discussion with someone when they challenged a "fact" that I have believed for a long time. Is it possible for the first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights, to be amended? For a long time, I thought that these were untouchable, set in stone if you will (like another set of ten...