Pay Attention Class – Constitution 101 Is Now In Session

Class is now in session. So pay attention.

Terrence from CA writes:

I hear you conmplain about the government funding things like the NEA and giving money to artists. I also here you complain about the COnstituion and how we have to dollow it. Well are you aware that in the Constitution tells Congress that they are supposed to fund the arts? It says that Congress is specifically to promote the arts? Just thought that I would educate you so you can be better in the future.

Terrence in CA

Terrence is a typical liberal. He has never really read the Constitution. And if he has he has a reading disability. So I write back with simple Constitution 101:

Terrence.

I do believe you need to reread the Constitution because you are misquoting it either through ignorance or a sinister desire to purposefully spread false information. You cite Article I, Section 8 and it does indeed say Congress has the authority, “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts”

But you are forgetting to read the entire passage because to read the entire passage clarifies how this promotion is to occur. Here is the complete section you cite:

“To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;”

Notice the bold and italicized part which says that this promotion of the progress of science and “useful arts” (not all arts mind you) that the power is not extended to fund such things but only to help authors and inventors secure the rights exclusively to their works for a “limited time.” This would be through things like Copyright and Trademark laws.

I am glad that I could educate you and hope that you will cease spreading inaccuracies about the Constitution in the future.

Terrence did write me back. But his email was so filled with expletives strung together to try and make sentences that it really is not worth my time posting it here. It would just be a bunch of bleeps and bloops with the occasional word thrown in once all the filth was taken out.

I bring this conversation to your attention because this is another example of how people distort what the Constitution actually says in order to make it say what they want it to say. We have too many Terrences in Congress and a big Terrence in the White House at this time. And none of them know their butt from a hole in the ground.

Don’t let all the Terrences get away with destroying our founding documents because they want something that they cannot have so badly that to not get it would drive them insane.