What Constitution did Glenn Beck read?

During his keynote address at CPAC Beck stated as he reads the Constitution the only job of government is to protect us from the "bad guys."

The Constitution of the United States
Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.


Article I
Section 8 - Powers of Congress

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
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beck is a rabble rouser. Either he's extremely limited in his critical reading skills or he's rewriting the Constitution. Its a shame when someone with limited intelligence, like Beck, is a pundit, when we have Rhodes Scholars like Rachel Maddow who actually read and glean information. Beck's elementary school style is similar to that of palin. All talk and no substance.





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It's a Republic if you can keep it....BFranklin let's just hope people stop misinterpreting it, and plagiarizing it. for their monetary gain..it's a sacred document...the constitution is a federal document not a twelve step program





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Glenn Beck calls progressives what they are, and he is nice enough not to race bait, when the defenition of progressive liberals scum is rooted in racism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive…





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Glen Beck is a moron. He is the perfect key-note speaker for cpac. Not even Palin is lame enough for the task.





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You leftists just cant get over the General Welfare clause can you ? Oh look the Constitution says i can get free stuff whoopee !!





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My friend, you can't see the forest for the trees. The Constitution provides the means to protect us from bad guys. Yep, that's exactly the job of government. Beck was talking about the constitution as a whole. Not each individual part of the Constitution. Much like saying the Only job of a car is to move us, and you say what about the radio or the heater .....





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Beck is just a sellout. Presumably he started out as a conspiracy loving libertarian who accused both all government of corruption, hypocrisy and scandal. But in spirit with capitalism i suppose, he compromised his ideals to channel those criticisms into a one sided attack. He spent a lifetime convincing people not to trust the government - it wasn't a far leap to revise his observations making them Republican friendly and focus on those ooohh evil liberals..

Now he just goes deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole breaking further from reality.

There are a small section of his viewers who can take it with a grain of salt and apply his rhetoric to government at large, but the hypnotic message of liberals are evil and dumb and treacherous etc, etc still wears off on them.. Meanwhile the majority section of viewers take him at face value.

Thank you for posting this. For the people who actually read your comments (what 1%?) it was probably a first.