constitution today. i ll bet it s the first time for a lot of congressmen and senators. they read it. but they left out two really important things. one, the three-fifths clause, which i just explained. if you find that offensive, you re ignorant. do your homework. what did what does it mean? why did they do it? they did it as a ticking time bomb to slavery. but they didn t want to offend anybody with that. which shows their cowardess for not reading it. but then they left out something else. they didn t read the 18th amendment. what is the 18th amendment? the 18th amendment is prohibition. but they left in the 21st amendment, which is hey, everyone can drink. so the question that you would have, if you read this and you left in the three-fifths clause, you would either be
it s been an issue where s the republican party been on this for the last 100 years? ed, i ll tell you in 1995, i introduced the bill, birth right citiz citizenship act. it didn t go anywhere. it ended up with almost 100-plus co-sponsors. you re right. they were worried about the perception here, but what i m saying to you, do you think that a wealthy foreigner should be able to fly into the united states, stay here for a few weeks and get automatic citizenship for their child even though they are not subject to the jurisdiction? congressman, i appreciate your question to me, but you and i didn t write the constitution. we re just supposed to follow it, and amending the constitution in the middle of an immigration fight because both parties in this country have been inept to enforce the laws that we have right now i think is a bridge too far. ed it sets a dangerous precedent. ed, i agree with you. you don t have to amend the constitution today. the children of dip
as far as that goes. how about the one that allows people to vote at 18. is that a good change? yeah. i think that s fine. you bet. so how do you decide which changes you like and which you don t like? obviously we ve gone through an evolution over time. black people can vote. they can t vote. they were slaves at the time of the constitution. that was in the constitution. they were counted as two-thirds of a person but they didn t get to vote themselves at that time. the constitution writers thought that was okay. you don t think it was okay, do you to have slaves? chris, let me sum it up this way. anything that is in the constitution today that is properly interpreted is fine by me and fine by the people in idaho. it s when president obama gets outside of the united states constitution that i have a problem. with the health care bill, cap and trade, a lot of the out in idaho we have a lot of public land issues. i don t believe that the federal
amendment repealed and the 17th as far as that goes. how about the one that allows people to vote at 18? is that a good change? yeah. i think that s fine. you bet. so how do you decide which changes you like and which you don t like? obviously we ve gone through an evolution over time. black people can vote. they couldn t vote. they were slaves at the time of the constitution. that was in the constitution. they were counted as two-thirds of a person but they didn t get to vote themselves at that time. the constitution writers thought that was okay. you don t think it s okay, do you, to have slaves? chris, let me sum it up this way. anything that is in the constitution today that is properly interpreted is fine by me and fine by the people in idaho. it s when president obama gets outside of the united states constitution that i have a problem. with the health care bill, cap and trade, a lot of the out in idaho we have a lot of public land issues. i don t believe that the feder
king. you will also see that in more recent times, we have generally sent to the government representatives and presidents who are more interested in power than in freedom and telling us how to live instead of leaving us alone. how did this happen? why did we lose freedom? does the government today even remotely resemble the one the constitution established in 1789? you can do the entire now six part series at foxnation.com and order it. fox news senior judicial analyst andrew napolitano has some examples of how our government has been violating the constitution today. no, just yesterday in the president s new budget, he wants to give the federal reserve the power to tell banks how to invest their money, to decide with whom they can do business, to examine the contracts they ve already signed. now, you may say well, what s wrong with that? these banks are too big to fail. but the constitution prohibits the government from telling banks that contract that you signed is no good so we