Jack Jackson

The preface to the article is wrong!

The House is not reading the 'entire' Constitution! The House is reading the Constitution as amended thereby giving the false impression (to some) of the infallibility of the original framers.

That impression couldn't be further from the truth. By reciting the document as amended the reference to '3/5 of all other persons' is lost. As this Constitution was adopted, slaves and American Indians had no rights that a white man had to honor. It took the 13th and 14th Amendment to recognize this inequity and it took a civil war to get the 13th and 14th Amendments!

I reject the revisionism inherent in reading our founding document as amended. It is fundamentally dishonest. It also spreads a false impression about the development of the Constitution and what the purpose of the document is.