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My copy of the Constitution from the ACLU!
It even has how to handle yourself in a police encounter! It also has the full Bill of Rights.
In a nice pocket size blue book.
Lanius
(599 posts)I think I'll get one of those too.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)I got mine for free.
DemInND
(164 posts)You know, and Ill admit it, I've never read the entire Constitution. Now's maybe a good time. I should request a copy as well. It would be a good read what the Founding Fathers envisioned.
sunnystarr
(2,638 posts)and my adult son promptly grabbed it and started reading it. There's other stuff in there but I'm not sure since he wouldn't let me have it. I never knew he cared.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)It is becoming a big thing to know what it says, for all ages.
They here all this junk from the right and hear the corrections from the left, the want to see it in black and white for themselves.
senegal1
(535 posts)I have been a card carrying member since 1989.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)I put the request in during the DNC convention. I got lucky to get mine so fast or at all with all the requests they have had.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,741 posts)The y'all Qaida people carry
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)"An armed populace, being required above all else, the right of the people to keep and bear guns and ammunition, shall never be regulated and takes precedence over all other rights outlined in the rest of this Constitution."
As opposed to ours, which reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
LeftInTX
(25,126 posts)We didn't have access to it. The question was what does the 2 Amendment say:
I thought that it said, "A well regulated Militia to prevent tyranny"...
I had been brain-washed by right wing talking points.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Make you completely forget about the actual language.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)melm00se
(4,984 posts)Cornell Law School has it online:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/overview
and its annotated too.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)csziggy
(34,131 posts)And includes other information.
But, yeah, today, having a link on a smart phone might be easier to access.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)books can't. That is one of the main reasons that I don't do e books.
lame54
(35,262 posts)Iggo
(47,534 posts)Dr. Strange
(25,916 posts)Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Glassunion
(10,201 posts)First I get my name in the phone book and now Im on your ass! You know, I bet more people see that than the phone book.
imanamerican63
(13,732 posts)barbtries
(28,769 posts)the constitution on my phone.
slightly ashamed to admit that i only got it after Khizr Khan's appearance at the convention.