Time Magazine cover asks if the Constitution Still Matters

[bobbyw24]

Provocative? Perhaps, but that’s nothing new for Time magazine with a history of taking iconic American symbols and using them to make political statements.

On Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Time magazine editor Richard Stengel presented the cover of his new July 4 issue, which features the U.S. Constitution going through a paper shredder and asks does the document still matter. According to Stengel, it does, but not as much anymore.

“Yes, of course it still matters but in some ways it matters less than people think,” Stengel said on “Morning Joe.” “People all the time are debating what’s constitutional and what’s unconstitutional. To me the Constitution is a guardrail. It’s for when we are going off the road and it gets us back on. It’s not a traffic cop that keeps us going down the center. And what our politics are about – politics are about conflict. There was no people who argued more about defining principles of America than the framers of the Constitution. They argued both sides of the most powerful issues in American history – slavery, states’ rights, central government. So to say that what did the framers want is kind of a crazy question, I have to say. I write about that in the piece.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/23/t...ution-asks-if-it-still-matters/#ixzz1Q8JHVAVA

 

[AGRP]

Apparently it does since Time is allowed by the constitution to continually publish idiotic articles.

 

[gls]

Does Time Magazine still matter? Less and less each day thankfully.

 

[bobbyw24]

Does Time Magazine still matter? Less and less each day thankfully.

Good point

 

[RM918]

Does...the declaration of independence still matter? Is that the question? Because I'm pretty sure that's what that is, but I might be wrong?

It was! This whole time I thought the 'We the People' bit was the declaration.

 

[Romulus]

Apparently Time knows which topics to cover, so there's your answer.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

TIME mag... Libtard Rag Print. Notice the date on the cover? "Table of Contents: July 4, 2011"

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20110704,00.html


That issue will be especially good for starting the coals on the 4th of July BBQ.

 

[Pericles]

The Constitution matters if we make it matter.

 

[awake]

They might as well ask the question in a different way: does the law of the land still matter? Answer at your own risk.

 

[malkusm]

TIME mag... Libtard Rag Print. Notice the date on the cover? "Table of Contents: July 4, 2011"

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20110704,00.html


That issue will be especially good for starting the coals on the 4th of July BBQ.

I'm not going to give them the pleasure of my hard-earned dollars, however much I'd like to burn one of them.

 

[Napoleon's Shadow]

Lysander Spooner said "The Constitution either gives us the government we have, or is powerless to prevent it."

 

[Guitarzan]

It's not the Constitution that matters. It's the ideas espoused within the Constitution that matter.

 

[Pericles]

Lysander Spooner said "The Constitution either gives us the government we have, or is powerless to prevent it."

Same would be true for almost anything - say laws against murder because they happen anyway.

 

[oyarde]

Saw that , what is the circulation on that thing now ?

 

[AdamT]

Does Time still matter?

 

[Rothbardian Girl]

Apparently it does since Time is allowed by the constitution to continually publish idiotic articles.

Lmfao, good one. Made me chuckle.

 

[erowe1]

They're a century or so late in breaking this story.

 

[Acala]

Nope. It doesn't matter anymore because "we" as a nation have rejected the rule of law and opted for the rule of men. And we shall reap the reward.

 

[treyfu]

"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist." -Lysander Spooner

I think it's a good question to ask.

 

[erowe1]

"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist." -Lysander Spooner

Spooner's premise is true, since it's a tautology. But I don't think his conclusion necessarily follows from it. If it did, then the following syllogism would be equally valid:

"Lysander Spooner has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, he is unfit to exist."