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Wow, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions thinks "the founders" wrote the 14th amendment -- in 1868! Those were some longed-lived dudes!

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To be fair, Jon Stewart is being a little silly in his comments, though. Of course, someone can both:
1) Be for a strict enforcement of the Constitution; but
2) Think it should be amended.

(Hat tip to the Murphmeister for the link.)

Comments

  1. PH12:19 PM

    He probably meant "framers." This looks like a simple slip of the tongue; I think we've all been there.

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  2. gcallah12:27 PM

    I don't know if you're joking or not, but when I look up "framers" it means the same thing as "founders":

    '"The 55 men at the convention are called the "Founding Fathers" of the USA, and are also known as the "Framers of the Constitution."'

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  3. PH12:48 PM

    Not the framers of the Constitution; the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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  4. gcallah1:04 PM

    OK, PSH, maybe -- I had never heard that used that way before, but perhaps that was what he intended.

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