Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Constitution Day at VCU and Elsewhere
Because I am a libertarian, I'd be completely amiss if I did not mention that today is "Constitution Day," a day initially ensconced in the mind of Sen. Robert Byrd in 2004 because Americans are supposedly ignorant of our founding document.Problem is, the provisions of Byrd's mandating that educational institutions - namely universites - that receive federal dollars must create some programming related to Constitution Day are unconstitutional, at least in theory.
In 2006, Walter Williams used the bully pulpit of his syndicated column to address the issue. Williams is my mother's favorite economist, and she sent me his column "Teaching about the Constitution," which was published in the Daily Press on September 13, 2006. I have scanned Williams' piece, and it appears below:
(Williams' article can also be read here, courtesy of the Jewish World Review.)
Virginia Commonwealth University appears to be in full compliance of Big Brother's mandate, and to boot, has a showy Constitution Day website to show for it, here.
Curiosity killed the cat, so I decided to attend the lecture today by the State Solicitor General for Virginia, Stephen McCullough. In a nutshell, McCullough argued to a small crowd that while the United States is generally more pro-freedom than other countries in the West, there are concerns on the horizon, especially if our Constitution becomes a delegitimized scrap of paper, like what happened to the Soviet Constitution.
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A more reliable link to Williams's Constitution Day article here:
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/06/constitution.html
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