First, a happy Constitution Day to everyone! Since, as points out, this is a rather obscure and wonkish holiday, we begin with a quiz: What do the phrases: 'falsely shouting fire in a theater' and 'clear and present danger' have to do with each other? Most Americans immediately recognize both phrases, although probably for different reasons. The first is drummed into us in school when learning about the First Amendment, but the recognition factor on the second probably exists because of Tom Clancy's novel (and subsequent movie) of the same name.

Because, shocking as it may seem in today's America of USA PATRIOT Acts and Guantanamo Bay, our beloved government has been trying to eviscerate the Bill of Rights for a long time now -- pretty much from before the ink was even dry on the first ten amendments. Laws have been passed throughout our history that are just blatantly the opposite of what the Bill of Rights guarantees us as citizens. It happens all the time.

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You might even say it's downright American to try to shred the Bill of Rights, since it is so ingrained in our historical narrative. This usually (but not always) happens either in the midst of a war, or in the midst of one of our periodic bouts of xenophobia. From this, you would think the political discourse in ye olden times was polite, respectful, and intelligently dispassionate.

You would be wrong. Seriously wrong.

Anyone who decries Fox News and Rupert Murdoch as some sort of aberration from our long history of dispassionate media simply does not know beans about history. If you want a quick refresher course, read from The New Yorker about the presidential election of 1800. Thomas Jefferson, that upright Founding Father was decried in print as an atheist and the Sally Hemmings story first appeared.

Now think about our current presidential race. Mud will be slung, no doubt, over the course of the next year, but will any candidate be called an atheist? Fathering a child with a slave is pretty extreme, too, but then we all remember what Karl Rove et al.

Did to John McCain in South Carolina, with the push-polling phone campaign suggesting he had fathered a 'colored' baby out of wedlock. Down and dirty is the American way when it comes to politics, for those who actually read our history.

Remember, after Jefferson won in 1800, we had what now must be called 'the first time' a Vice President shot someone. Kakka kakka surya telugu songs free download. But Cheney shot a friend of his by accident -- Aaron Burr shot a political rival in a pre-arranged duel. Politics was no picnic back then. Schenck, a Socialist, was convicted of distributing a flyer against the current (World War I) military draft.

[See the original text of the flyer, in PDF format] This flyer reads like someone posting on a blog today. It's actually very intelligent and erudite, and it makes several arguments against the draft which are solidly based in the author's reading of the Constitution.