after one year from the ratification of this article, the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors ourselves within the importation thereof, into or the exportation thereof from the united states and all territories subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. hereby prohibited. the 18th amendment banned booze. it was an incredibly stupid thing that our country did. it was, in fact, part of the constitution at one point. lots of other dumb and evil stuff has been part of the constitution from time to time. like, for example, the three-fifths compromise that declared representation and taxes should be aportioned among the states that excluded indians and included all other persons as three-fifths of a person. there was part of article iv
the states that excluded indians and included all other persons as three-fifths of a person. there was part of article iv that required escaped slaves to be returned to their owners, no matter where in the country they had escaped to. the constitution, admittedly awesome, has totally not awesome stuff from time to time. you can you handle that truth in one of two ways. you could acknowledge that the constitution has had really crazy stuff in it from time to time, use that as a teaching moment to remember that the constitution is not the ten commandments. the constitution is a living document that has changed over time in ways both good and bad as the country has gotten older. or you can be a constitutional fundamentalist and ignore the fact there has been bad stuff in it over time. when you stage something you re calling a reading of the constitution, you leave out stuff you find embarrassing to
read out loud. another part of article iv was left out. article iv, section 4. the united states shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government and protect employee of them against invasion. and on application of the legislature or of the executive when the legislature cannot be convened, against domestic violence. that section was left out of the reading today as well. i don t think that is because anybody was embarrassed about section. i don t think that was because that offended someone. as far as we know that part of the constitution was left out initially because and i quote the constitution was placed in a three-ring binder and the pages simply stuck together. the member of congress who was reading article iv accidentally skipped a bit. see? god s trying to tell us something about human
that required escaped slaves to be returned to their owners, no matter where in the country they had escaped to. the constitution, admittedly awesome, has totally not awesome stuff from time to time. you can you handle that truth in one of two ways. you could acknowledge that the constitution has had really crazy stuff in it from time to time, use that as a teaching moment to remember that the constitution is not the ten commandments. the constitution is a living document that has changed over time in ways both good and bad as the country has gotten older. or you can be a constitutional fundamentalist and ignore the fact there has been bad stuff in it over time. when you stage something you re calling a reading of the constitution, you leave out stuff you find embarrassing to read out loud. another part of article iv was left out. article iv, section 4. the united states shall