Republican Marsha Blackburn reveals she doesn't know what an 'Amendment' is -- on Constitution Day
It’s Constitution Day in America, which is generally the day in which politicians try to prove their immense knowledge and appreciation for the U.S. founding documents. Occasionally some of them misquote it, instead citing the Declaration of Independence, but Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) took another route.
“We will never rewrite the Constitution of the United States,” she proclaimed proudly on Twitter.
When the Constitution is changed it’s called an Amendment and the founding document is rewritten. As Justice Stephen Breyer has remarked, the Constitution is a “living constitution” that looks to text, history, precedent, purposes, consequences and current values to interpret any text that may have been vague.
As one reporter pointed out, Blackburn is currently sponsoring three Constitutional Amendments to rewrite the document:
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