6/29/11, "Fourteen Clear Factual Errors in Richard Stengel's Essay on the Constitution," (And I Am Looking for Your Help)" Big Journalism, Aaron Worthing
"On June 23, 2011, Time magazine published an essay entitled “One Document, Under Siege” (one page version, here) by Richard Stengel. I consider the publication of this article to be nothing less than a scandal. Besides the deep philosophical disagreements I have with Mr. Stengel, the piece simply fails as journalism. As I will demonstrate in this post, there were fourteen objectively verifiable errors in Mr. Stengel’s piece, half of which could have been discovered simply by reading the Constitution itself.
I will lay out all of the false claims and evidence in a moment, but let me preview the most egregious error in the article, when Mr. Stengel wrote this:
If the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it sure doesn’t say so.
As one commenter wrote: “I had to read it twice to believe my eyes. Time really did say this.” And while I will prove definitively in a moment that he is wrong, I suspect every single person reading this knows it already.
The fact that this and thirteen other egregious errors appeared in Time at all is bad enough. But further, it was a cover story....So I will present to you fourteen clear errors Mr. Stengel has made in his article, starting with the most egregious errors. Here are the fourteen errors, in short:
- 1. The Constitution does not limit the federal government.
- 2. The Constitution is not law.
- 3. The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment emancipated the slaves.
- 4. The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment granted the right to vote to African Americans.
- 5. The original Constitution declared that black people were to be counted as three-fifths of a person.
- 6. That the original, unamended Constitution prohibited women from voting.
- 7. The Commerce Clause grants Congress the power to tax individuals based on whether they buy a product or service.
- 8. Inter arma enim silent leges translates as “in time of war, the Constitution is silent.”
- 9. The War Powers Act allows the president to unilaterally wage war for sixty days.
- 10. We have only declared war five times.
- 11. Alexander Hamilton wanted a king for America.
- 12. Social Security is a debt within the meaning of Section Four of the Fourteenth Amendment.
- 13. Naturalization depends on your birth.
- 14. The ObamaCare mandate is a tax.
"Here, point-by-point, is proof that each one of those claims are incorrect.
False Claim #1: The Constitution does not limit the Federal Government."...
(The author explains each of the 14 errors).via American Thinker
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