When and where did Bush call the Constitution "an old scrap of paper?"?
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Looks like you will NOT find it.  Note that no one using it bothers to give a specific quote or context.\n\nA web search turns up numerous cases of the very same article --a screed by Cindy Sheehan, where she lists this alongside various other positions she imagines Bush has.  \n\nNot exactly the most reliable, unbiased source.  No, if he'd said anything like this you can be sure there are plenty of journalists who would be out there reporting it!\n\n\nConsider also the slight possibility that Bush --or perhaps just a Bush supporter-- used the expression "old scrap of paper" of the Constitution, but NOT in order to denigrate it.  \n\nCompare the following random quotes from forums:\n\n*then the state is interfereing in church affairs - not legal, at least not according to a little old scrap of paper we call the "Constitution".\n\n*pick up the constitution and measure the action of the government.\nif they fall short or violate the old scrap of paper, then ANYONE... yes, anyone has the right to SUE the government, or press charges for the violation. \n\nNote that both of these speakers use this very expression for the Constitution but CLEARLY think of it very highly and are using the expression to help make that point!\n\nIt would not be difficult to imagine how a Bush-hater might come across such a phrase and jump to the conclusion it was intended negatively without stopping to check.\n\nAnd consider how easily this would happen -- someone who thinks Bush's NSA policy or whatever violates the Constitution makes a remark (their own opinion, mind you) that "Bush acts as if the Constitution is just an old scrap of paper".  That quickly becomes "Bush thinks that..."   and oh, so easily, ends up as "Bush SAID that. . . "   And of course THIS is the form that many pick up on and run with.
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George W. Bush is trying to pass a constitutional amendment that would allow 3 presidential terms.\n\n\nSorry, you said funny not scary
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Paper, News-TV "Talk host MEET THE PRESS" About the "Constitution Restoration Act" Concerning The Evangelical Conservative Christians using Capitalism as a form Government and false Religious faith. Spreading it across the globe and causing a lot of lives to be lost in the process. Billy Graham trying to pull this same thing with Richard Nixon when he was President. Billy Graham being on the Watergate tapes with Nixon.
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The United States Constitution was written in Philadelphia during the Constitutional Convention from May to September 1787.  It took the representatives from each state that many months to decide what should be in the Constitution.\n\nThe National Archives Website answers your question:\nWho actually wrote the Constitution?\nA. In none of the relatively meager records of the Constitutional Convention is the literary authorship of any part of the Constitution definitely established. The deputies debated proposed plans until, on July 24, 1787, substantial agreement having been reached, a Committee of Detail was appointed, consisting of John Rutledge, of South Carolina; Edmund Randolph, of Virginia; Nathaniel Gorham, of Massachusetts; Oliver Ellsworth, of Connecticut; and James Wilson, of Pennsylvania, who on August 6 reported a draft which included a Preamble and twenty-three articles, embodying fifty-seven sections. Debate continued until September 8, when a new Committee of Style was named to revise the draft. This committee included William Samuel Johnson, of Connecticut; Alexander Hamilton, of New York; Gouverneur Morris, of Pennsylvania; James Madison, of Virginia; and Rufus King, of Massachusetts, and they reported the draft in approximately its final shape on September 12. The actual literary form is believed to be largely that of Morris, and the chief testimony for this is in the letters and papers of Madison, and Morris's claim. However, the document in reality was built slowly and laboriously, with not a piece of material included until it has been shaped and approved. The preamble was written by the Committee of Style.
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It is already getting an upgrade.  By the time the Bush appointees on SCOTUS get done with it, we won't even recognize it.\n\nIn any case, there is nothing wrong with the Constitution, it designs a very workable and very democratic government.  And it protects the rights of the people by explicitly forbidding the goverment from abridging them.\n\nFunny you should mention language.  Politicians and judges go into contortions twisting the English language in order to bend the plain meaning of the plain language of the Constitution in order to get around the Constitution.\n\nFor example, Bush says that warrantless searches and seizures, which are explicitly forbidden in the Constitution, are his perogative because of Article III.  This article says nothing about that at all.  It does say that the President is the Commander in Chief of the army.\nSo he is saying that because he is commander in chief he can ignore the Constitution any time he wants.\n\nI don't care if you are a Bush supporter and a conservative - you are not doing conservatives any favors by letting them get away with brushing aside the Constitution with language hocus pocus and the sayso of some dude in the White House.\n\nThe oath of office of every official and of every member of every branch of the military is a pledge to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.  Because it is the Constitution that makes America, that makes America work, and that makes America the best governed nation in the world.\n\nLet's just leave it alone, ok?
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Honestly, USA. We took over other people's land and called it our own. Our government and President sucks. Most of the people in the country don't know about their own Constitution. And there is always something corrupt in the White House now-a-days.
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Are you talking about the English Magna Carta or the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the USA.???\nIt is confusing.
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A paper clip:\n\n-can hold large amounts of material together\n\n-can be used to pick simple locks\n\n-have been used by some as jewelry\n\n-are fun to bend when bored\n\n-are innocent enough to make their way into places where they can do good without our notice\n\n\nGeorge Bush:\n\n-He can't even hold this country together\n\n-Innocence and IGNORANCE are two completely different things and neither should be held by THE representative of a world power. \n\n-He can't even lock up his mouth, every word screws us further with world politics. \n\n-Only Condoleezza would want him as an adornment. His supporters are dropping like flies. \n\n-Fun to poke at when bored (preferrably with a sharp stick), but too easily manipulated. \n\n\nThe result: Paper Clip 1, George Bush 0\n\npfffft
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It was among the earliest state constitutions.  Actually, it was written before the Constitution of the United States (1787).
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The Preamble \n\nIt is an introduction to the Constitution and gives the basic reason for creating the document.  "... in order to create a more perfect union..."\n\n[][][] r u randy? [][][]\n.
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they make a mess of the country and when they listen to George Bush they make a mess out of the Constitution too
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The US Constitution was written in 1776.  There have been alot of modifications (amendments) since that time but are you referring to just amendments during that five year period?  If you could be a little more specific, I could help you a whole lot more.  Oh yeah, and don't forget  about The Bill Of Rights.  Maybe even just as important.  To keep corruption out of the executive branch (you know--the checks & balance system) that's going to hell as we speak?  or rather write........
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Oh, I am wounded to the core.\n\nAre you familiar with a document that conservatives shredded and used for toilet paper called the Constitution?  Well, the First Amendment  to that document, which Bush is reported to have called "just a GD piece of paper" guarantees free speech as not only a value, but a right.\n\nIt is not an absolute freedom, of course, there are restrictions against its abuse, such as libel and defamation, obscenity, incitement to crime, and sedition.  Although they have been rejected by American courts, some arguments have been made that speech which is offensive whould also fall under restricted speech, such as using the phrase "sissy liberal talk."
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To the US Constitution? 27 amendments have been ratified \n\nThe 27th Amendment was proposed back in the 1780s but only ratified in 1992.
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Since Communist China is ignoring it completely, I would say it's toilet paper. The Republicans gave away all of Americas bargaining power to the Communists. Brilliant plan President Bush.
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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was one of the original thirteen colonies. It was the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution on December 12, 1787, after Delaware.
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Well, probably too late now for the test.\n\nTry reading the Constitution. It's only a dozen or so pages. The main Articles that deal with checks and balances are the first three that establish the main branches of government, and Article VI.