{"id":468,"date":"2012-03-23T09:36:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T13:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jparnell.com\/blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2012-03-23T09:36:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T13:36:56","slug":"constitutional-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A February 2021 <em>USA Today<\/em>\/Gallup poll on Obamacare revealed some interesting statistics:<\/p>\n<p>1. Americans are divided (45% vs 44%) on whether Congress did a good or bad thing by passing the law.<\/p>\n<p>2. 72% of respondents believe the law is unconstitutional; 20% believe it is Constitutional.<\/p>\n<p>A very interesting take-away point from this survey is being overlooked. If 45% of Americans believe Congress did the right thing by passing Obamacare and 72% believe it is unconstitutional, then about one-quarter of respondents are applauding Congress for passing an unconstitutional law. It&#8217;s impossible to pinpoint the exact percentage here, but 1\/4 is a sound estimate given the data that is presented.<\/p>\n<p>Put another way, about 1\/4 approve of Congress behaving in an unconstitutional manner as long as they like the bill in question. This is chilling. The argument by many that the Constitution is a &#8220;living and breathing document open to interpretation&#8221; is being replaced by ignoring it altogether.<\/p>\n<p>I bet most of the estimated 1\/4 are not net federal income taxpayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A February 2021 USA Today\/Gallup poll on Obamacare revealed some interesting statistics: 1. Americans are divided (45% vs 44%) on whether Congress did a good or bad thing by passing the law. 2. 72% of respondents believe the law is unconstitutional; 20% believe it is Constitutional. A very interesting take-away point from this survey is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/battle4liberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}