David Currie Reads the Constitution:
Via the University of Chicago Law Faculty blog, I learn that the Chicago website has posted an MP3 file recorded in 2006 of the late Professor David Currie reading the U.S. Constitution (link to the hosting page rather than the file). It's a big file, but a download is well worth it: Currie has a marvelous voice, and hearing the Constitution read aloud gives you a particularly keen sense of the structure and internal consistency of the document. Super cool.
I'll bet John Roberts has it on his iPod -- shouldn't you?
I'll bet John Roberts has it on his iPod -- shouldn't you?
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OT: Or maybe I should say, speaking of the Constitution, I just saw the movie Michael Clayton and I am very curious to hear what Volokh Conspirators have to say about it.
My own take: Attorney Edens certainly went about it the hard way. Why didn't he just find some friendly journalists?
...Maybe we should start having the the President, Congressmen, and other government officials make some kind of solemn promise to abide by the Constitution when they assume their official positions --- we could call it an 'oath-of-office' or something... (?)
Yeah, I understand it sounds something like this.
Require that they do the whole thing from memory rather than parroting the chief three words at a time. That way we'd know they had some idea what they said.
I doubt it. See, e.g. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 415 F.3d 33 (2005).
Barry
I doubt it. See, e.g. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 415 F.3d 33 (2005).
Barry