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Rumsfeld's "Defender of the Constitution" Award Has Few Defenders

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This award may very well become the standard for dividing constitutionalists from those who, in Hunter's words, 'allow their ideological faith to dictate their own facts.' Those who applaud the award do indeed treat the Constitution as a prop -- good for whipping up a partisan frenzy, especially around election day, but something to be tossed aside once one gets down to the business of governing. Those who decry it see the words on that yellowed parchment as something to honor even when it is inconvenient or restrictive -- in fact, precisely because it is inconvenient and restrictive to the powers that be.

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Please don't forget his other award, by Daniel Geery on Friday, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:11:35 AM