Won't anybody here read the Constitution?

By Wesley Pruden

"But if you can't argue the facts, as every lawyer knows, you try tap dancing. Advocates for tap dancing around the Constitution have their arguments, some more artistic than others, composed mostly of feelings, sentiments and wet sensations. One overwrought Washington pastor, writing in The Washington Post, complains that the city was "months ahead of much of the nation in granting freedom to slaves" but "remains centuries behind in securing voting rights for our nearly 600,000 residents." For the sake of her parishoners we must pray the lady knows more about theology than she knows about history and how the world works. The city of Washington had no power to free the slaves; that was the work of President Lincoln and the federal government. But the emotion is pretty in certain ears, and for certain ears that's enough."

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