United States Constitution Archives

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Liar David Barton Claims That U.S. Constitution Quotes ‘Almost Verbatim’ from Bible

“You’ll find almost verbatim wording in many clauses of the Constitution to passages in the Bible. It’s a one-to-one correlation on the wording.”

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Trump Says He Prefers a ‘Good Shutdown’ to Making a Deal With Dems to Fund Government

Frustrated with having to “do a deal” to fund the government Trump whined, “Our country needs a good ‘shutdown’ in September to fix mess!”

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Frustrated Dictator Trump Says ‘Archaic’ Constitution is a Bad Thing for the Country

@POTUS on getting things done in government: “It’s a very rough system. It’s an archaic system…It’s really a bad thing for the country.”

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Opinion: SCOTUS Hears Arguments To Tear Down Church and State Barrier

A ruling for theocracy will effectively demolish church-state separation and neuter the First Amendment’s religious clauses.

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Rep Gutierrez Tells CNN Sanctuary Cities Are Actually ‘Fourth Amendment Cities’

“If you supply a warrant to the city of Chicago, we will absolutely honor that warrant. But you’ve got to get a warrant.”

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Pat Robertson Says People Who Oppose Trump Are Revolting Against God

The First Amendment says “there is no…infringing on the freedom of the press.” Not by Donald Trump. Not even by God.

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Sean Hannity Wigs Out Over Morning Joe Criticism of Stephen Miller

“Steve Miller works 18 hour days serving the country and the @POTUS What do you do? Basically talk to yourself & @morningmika Nobody watches!”

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Sen. Angus King: Trump Lacks ‘A Gut-Level Understanding of Checks and Balances’

“John Marshall settled that question in 1803. This is Mr. Trump meet Mr. Madison. Division of powers, independent judiciary, fundamental principals of our Constitution.”

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In Donald Trump’s America There is No Free Speech Without a Permit

Protesters at Denver International Airport were told by Denver police, “Stop doing anything that could be construed as free speech without a permit”

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Donald Trump Announces He Will Be Leaving His Business to Avoid Conflict of Interest

“I feel it is visually important, as President, to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses”

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Trump Announces Meeting With the People Who Will Run Government for the Next 8 Years

“Great meetings will take place today at Trump Tower concerning the formation of the people who will run our government for the next 8 years”

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Newt Gingrich Says Pastors Have a Duty to Fight ‘Totalitarian Secularism’

“I think you have a duty…to have the courage to stand up and tell the truth; tell the truth about those who would impose a totalitarian secularism on us”

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Republicans Obsessed with Idea Witches Are Running Our Country – Yes, Really

“I know that there’s demonic forces in that city. I have personally met people that refer to themselves as witches, people that say they advise the senior leadership of the country.

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Pastors Don’t Put Lipstick on a Pig – They Place a Crown On its Head

The meeting was as bizarre a convocation as any known to history, the disreputable hailing the disreputable and defending the indefensible by cloaking hate in sanctity

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Washington Post Editorial Board Says ‘Oh Hell No’ to Trump Presidency

“We cannot salute the Republican nominee or pretend that we might endorse him this fall. A Trump presidency would be dangerous for the nation and the world”

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Pat Boone Wants Blasphemy Laws to Punish Saturday Night Live

Boone says “there should be regulations that prohibit blasphemy” because SNL made fun of Christians pretending to be persecuted

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Ted Cruz Will Roll Back Access to Contraception if Elected

Cruz says he will illegally order an investigation of Planned Parenthood and end requirement of contraceptive method coverage for employers

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Trump Supporters Reject SCOTUS Nominee Merrick Garland Because He’s a Jew

According to Duke, “three open Jewish members” is too many on SCOTUS, because “those Jews” will do “whatever the Jewish agenda is”

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Franklin Graham Freaks Out, Claims Secular Government is New to U.S.

Graham’s big lie: “You talk about us being a secular government, a secular society — that’s only taken place in the last few years.”

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The Christian Jihadists Are at the Gates and They Want Your Rights

Christian jihadist terror is grasping at the heart of America, culminating in cries by presidential candidates usurp the Constitution

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Southern Poverty Law Center Warns of More Insurrection to Come

Nobody did anything about Cliven Bundy’s armed insurrection, so it hardly comes as a surprise that his son Ammon should up the stakes

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Marco Rubio Says to Ignore SCOTUS Decision and First Amendment

Marco Rubio continues the Republican narrative that the Bible they haven’t read trumps the Constitution they haven’t read

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Rand Paul Says You Don’t Have a Right to Pants

If that’s true, what Paul is saying is that I DO have the right to pursue happiness without my pants.

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Jeb Says Term “Islamic Terrorism” is not About Islam but Says “No” to Muslim Refugees

Jeb Bush says “Islamic terrorism” isn’t really about religion but he sure doesn’t want any Muslims in this country – even refugees

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SCOTUS Be D*mned – Bobby Jindal Says No Earthly Court Can Redefine Marriage

Jindal insists he just wants the right to live his Christian faith, but what he really wants is to force US to live HIS Christian faith

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Huckabee Wants to Thank SCOTUS for Their “Thoughts and Opinions” And Ignore Them

Mike Huckabee says he gets to decide what is constitutional or not, not the Supreme Court, which is given that job by the Constitution

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Fox News Upset That School District – Like Jesus – Told Coach to Pray in Private

Liberty Institute says if Coach Joe Kennedy isn’t allowed to continue praying – against Jesus’ wishes – they will sue the school district.

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CNN Host Drops U.S. Constitution Truthbomb on Ben Carson Supporter

Alisyn Camerota read the “No Religious Test” clause out loud and said, “Carson’s belief system violates that part of the Constitution”

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Kim Davis To Get an Award From Family Research Council for Excellence in Bigotry

Based on a fantasy version of the US Constitution, the Religious Right hails Kim Davis as a Savior and Gives her a Medal for Bigotry

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Oath Keepers Plan to “Protect” Kim Davis from Arrest by US Marshals

The group said, “This judge needs to be put on notice that this sort of behavior is not going to be accepted and we’ll be there to stop it”

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Look Out! “General” Jerry Boykin Says Christians ARE the Government

Boykin claims “when you hold up a Bible, you need to hold up the Constitution right next to it” and pretend they’re the exact same thing

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David Barton’s Appalling Lie that the Constitution Puts God’s Law Above Man’s Law

Barton says the Founding Fathers were all about God’s law trumping man’s. The problem is, the idea is nowhere found in the U.S. Constitution

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They’re Serious: Republicans Actively Calling To Shred the Constitution

The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. The GOP want to shred the Constitution to revert to legal white supremacy

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Mike Huckabee Says he Will Use Military to Prevent Abortion

Asked in Iowa how he could stop abortion when it’s perfectly legal, Huckabee said, “We’ll see, if I get to be president.”

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Texas Republicans Violate The Constitution By Denying Citizenship To US Born Hispanic Children

Texas has been violating the 14th amendment, by refusing to issue birth certificates to American-born children of undocumented immigrants.

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Mike Huckabee Vows To Resist Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling With Executive Orders

Huckabee declared that he would sign executive orders protecting businesses and churches who oppose gay marriage.

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The Religious Right’s Full Page Denunciation of the United States Constitution

If you want a place where you tell everybody what God wants and then force everybody else to listen to you, you’re in the wrong country

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Rick Santorum Says He Decides What is Constitutional, Not the Supreme Court

Rick Santorum says says you refusing to believe what he wants you to believe is a violation of the First Amendment

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In Challenging the Supreme Court, Republicans Challenge the Constitution

The upcoming SCOTUS marriage equality ruling is just another opportunity for Republicans to challenge the constitutionality of the Consitution

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Religious Right Serves Restraining Orders On Supreme Court Justices Ginsburg and Kagan

Tt was no great surprise that evangelicals followed the lead of two congressional Republicans and issued religious orders restraining the ‘wrong’ kind of Supreme Court Justices from fulfilling their duly sworn Constitutional duty.

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Fox & Friends: Priest Says Don’t Trust President Who Doesn’t Fear Eternal Damnation

Father Jonathan Morris took to Fox & Friends to push fear of eternal damnation while ignoring the Constitution’s No Religious Test Clause

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It’s Getting Hard to Tell Where Sovereign Citizens End and Republicans Begin

Both Republicans and so-called sovereign citizens are citizens and subject to federal authority. If not, we should rethink deportation laws

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Apparently, Refusing to Stone Gays Means You’re Not a Christian

Of course, the pastor saying this also needs to be stoned for not following the Law of Moses

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Bob Vander Plaats Says Exercising First Amendment Rights Mocks God

Yes, actually exercising your First Amendment right to have your own beliefs is a “huge concern” with “spiritual ramifications” in Iowa

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S.C. Says Constitution Allows Discrimination Against Women So Gay Discrimination Is Okay

The crux of South Carolina’s argument in support of discriminating against gays is that if it constitutionally permissible to discriminate against women, then it is perfectly legal to discriminate against gays.

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As Religious Tyranny Arrives, Religious Freedom Lovers Flee Indiana

Indiana is the latest state to proclaim religious tyranny, and the reaction (no NCAA?) is anything but what Hoosier bigots expected

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Mike Huckabee Says He Has Magic Powers and Will Use Them to Kill You

Mike Huckabee thinks he can call down fire from heaven to smite his opponents, an act (phew!) in violation of the United States Constitution

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Using a Convention of States to Destroy the Federal Government for the Kochs

Republicans are supporting using Article V of the Constitution not to propose amendments to the Constitution, but to destroy the government

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Senate Subcommittee Invites Hate Group Leader to Testify about Religious Freedom

Inviting hate group leader Tony Perkins to speak about religious freedom is just more evidence of the GOP’s farcical approach to governance

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It Is Time To Repeal the 10TH Amendment And Unify America

It is true that there was open rebellion and massive bloodshed as one faction that could not countenance a ‘united’ nation sought to rip the country apart, but the sentiment that engendered the Civil War is still alive and well due to one ill-advised amendment to the nation’s founding document; the 10th Amendment.

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Red State Voters Are Stupid For Electing Insane Republicans

One can hardly feel empathy for the people living under Republican extremists because unlike people suffering under fanatics in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and ISIS-controlled Iraq; red state extremists are chosen by incredibly stupid Americans to govern.

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It’s Time To Face The Truth That Republicans Are Traitors

It is likely that throughout America’s short history, except for the traitorous Confederacy, no group of individuals has exhibited the characteristic betrayal of a traitor more than conservatives in general, and Republicans in particular.

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The Republican Passed Keystone Pipeline Bill Violates The Constitution

Every one of the Koch Republicans, and their oily Democratic cohorts, who voted to approve a State Department construction permit for TransCanada to build the KeystoneXL pipeline across America’s international border with Canada are guilty of violating the Constitution’s long-standing Separation of Powers.

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Sen. Chuck Grassley Absurdly Claims Bill of Rights Dependent on Citizens United

The only thing keeping Republicans in power right now is money, and they’ll tell any lies to hold onto that money.

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Palin for 2016? Ha! It’s Ohio Governor John Kasich Who Has A Puncher’s Chance

A new ‘serious’ candidate just started kicking the tires for 2016. He’s 62-year-old, twice married, Ohio Governor and former Congressman, John Kasich. Unlike Sarah Palin, he could catch on.

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In 2014 America Abandoned Its Constitution And Devolved Into a Fascist Theocracy

Republicans in state after state spent the past year hastily passing legislation abolishing other Americans’ 14th Amendment rights

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Ben Carson’s Embarrassingly Stupid Attack on Obamacare

Ben Carson thinks Obamacare is unconstitutional because it doesn’t help everybody. The only problem with that is that it DOES help everybody

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Scalia Is Wrong: The Constitution Prohibits Torture and GOP Civil Rights Violations

Conservatives have proffered every possible scenario to justify torture, including Supreme Court Justice Scalia invoking a fictional television counter-terrorism agent, Jack Bauer, torturing alleged terror suspects to stop a fictional attack on America.

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Of Black Men and Sea Changes – and Hope

Barack Obama and John Boyega were both attacked for taking a traditional white man’s role: president and storm trooper

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Racists Demand Punishment For African Americans Exercising First Amendment Rights

For decent Americans it is beyond comprehension that it is acceptable for white supremacists, whether they are St. Louis-area cops or owners of a sports bar, to demand that African Americans suffer punishment for exercising their constitutional rights.

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Rick Santorum Lyingly Claims Separation of Church and State is Communist and un-American

In fact, the separation of church and state is something quintessentially American. Americans invented the idea, after all

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Texas Republican Proposes Another Civil War By Ending The Union Through Nullification

The Civil War is something a Texas Republican legislator, Dan Flynn, is attempting to repeat through a proposal that empowers just two Texas Republicans, the state house speaker and lieutenant governor, with authority to suspend any federal law within Texas’s border.

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The First Amendment Protects All Religions – Including Satanism

You don’t have to approve of a religion to understand and accept that every religion is on equal footing in the United States

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Texas Legislator’s Biblical Proposal Abolishes Constitutional Equal Rights

Republicans and religious conservatives detest the 14th Amendment for myriad reasons, but chief among them is the guarantee of equal rights for Americans not in the biblical mold championed by Neo Christians; single mothers, atheists, Muslims, non-compliant Christians, and particularly gays.

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Demand That Republicans Pledge To Support Democracy Or Get Out Of Politics

Although Republicans detest democracy, they certainly understand the principle behind it and instead of swearing an oath to support a document always open to interpretation, Americans should demand that all politicians pledge to support America’s democracy; or leave office forthwith.

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Bryan Fischer Says Government is Meant to be a Minister of God

“When government defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman…It’s doing its job. It’s fulfilling its role as a minister of God”

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Victory for Democracy as Wisconsin and Texas Voter ID Laws Come Tumbling Down

Democracy called checkmate against Scott Walker’s attempt to rig Wisconsin’s vote, while a Federal Court slapped down Greg Abbott’s attempt to suppress votes in Texas.

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Right-Wing Justice Scalia is Crusading to Establish Religion by Constitutional Fiat

Koch and Vatican surrogate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia delivered a judicial sermon at Colorado Christian University and informed 400 faithful Christians that the separation of church and state “doesn’t mean the government cannot favor religion over non-religion.”

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The Values Voter Summit’s Promotion of Religious Tyranny is Un-American

These speakers want to fundamentally alter our way of life. In the ideal fake-Christian world, our freedom of religion would be an actual negation of freedom

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Airman Ordered to Swear a Religious Oath or Get Out of the Air Force

The United States Air Force, itself sworn to “support and defend the Constitution,” cannot abide by, support, or defend either the First Amendment or Article VI and rejected an atheist airman’s attempt to reenlist to serve and defend his country unless he swears a religious oath.

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Hobby Lobby Wasn’t Enough For Conservatives Who Want To Rewrite The Constitution

In fact, there is a desire among many extreme conservatives to hold a new Constitutional Convention to craft a new document that adheres strictly to their vision of a nation the Founding Fathers never intended.

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The Supreme Court’s Shameless War on American Democracy

The Supreme Court ought to be protecting democracy. Like the other branches of the government, it answers to the people

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Ted Cruz Lies and Claims Senate Democrats Will Abolish The 1st Amendment

Ted Cruz was introducing his father at the Watchmen on the Wall, sponsored by the extremist Family Research Council and combined the Koch-Republican-Supreme Court definition of money as speech with a very healthy dose of Republican fear mongering to influence evangelical fanatics into believing Senate Democrats were abolishing the 1st Amendment.

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