Constitution+day+KR0

=__**0:00-0:15 Small Talk and What is the Constitution**__=


 * Say hello and make small talk about things going on in the person's life. List a few things you could talk about with your person.

1 Hi, James Wilson, my name is Katie. I am very interested that you majored in law. You must have felt like a very imporatant person in society being an Associate Justice in the Supreme Court.

2 I am also interested that you attended St. Andrews. It must have been fun to study with John Dickinson. 3 http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/wilson.htm

Remind him what the Constitution is

1 The constitution is a written document that shows the primary law of the U.S. Federal Government. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/index.html

2 It describes the three chief branches of the Federal Government and their jurisdictions.

3 The Constitution also states the basic rights of citizens of the United States.**

=__0:15-0:30__= [|**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Constitution#Applying_a_living_constitution__******] 1__ The constitution is living and breathing because it is a theory of constitutional interpretation which premises that the constitution is dynamic, says wikipedia.
 * __Why is it "living or breathing?" or Why is it not "living and breathing?"

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What is your proof? 1 The following court case proves the Constitution to be a living, breathing document subject to revision:

In //Beauharnais v. Illinois//,1000 relying on dicta in past cases,1001 the Court upheld a state group libel law that made it unlawful to defame a race or class of people. These laws raise no constitutional difficulty because libel is within that class of speech that is not protected by the First Amendment. If an utterance directed at an individual may be the object of criminal sanctions, then no good reason appears to deny a State the power to punish the same utterances when they are directed at a defined group, “unless we can say that this is a willful and purposeless restriction unrelated to the peace and well-being of the State.”1002 2 http://law.onecle.com/constitution/amendment-01/44-group-libel-and-hate-speech.html

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