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To me it's significant that 37% of Americans support a program that's undoubtedly unconstitutional. I wonder how much the poll participants actually knew about
by hawkharris 13y ago
To me it's significant that 37% of Americans support a program that's undoubtedly unconstitutional. I wonder how much the poll participants actually knew about PRISM. Either they support it out of ignorance or for political reasons -- or there's widespread, fundamental misunderstanding of the federal Constitution.
- malandrew 13y agoI'd take this further and do a poll of people to find out how many people agree with individual provisions of the Constitution. Like literally show people one clause/section at a time, have them read it and ask them what parts they agree and disagree with.
- jessaustin 13y agoSome experiments have been performed, and the results are not pretty: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/24/when-congress-voted-down-_n_3332586.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/24/when-congress-voted... The House killed Watt's amendment [the literal text of the Fourth Amendment] by nearly a 3-1 margin.