Congress needs tutorial on the U.S. Constitution  Phyllis
Schlafly  10/9/2006 10:01:00 PM - Phyllis Schlafly  Some federal
employees are griping because a new law requires them to take a
25-minute tutorial on the U.S. Constitution. Sen. Robert C.
Byrd, D-W.Va., sponsored this law, along with a similar law
requiring every public school to "hold an educational program on
the United States Constitution on Sept. 17," which is
Constitution Day.  Byrd deserves our thanks for this great idea
because most Americans, including public officials, are
abysmally ignorant of the text and the meaning of our
Constitution. The only thing the matter with his law is that he
should have required a constitutional tutorial to be taken by
judges and members of Congress.  If judges understood the
Constitution, they would know that it gives government eminent-
domain power to take your private property for "public use," and
judges have no power to change those words to "public purpose"
and then define an increase in tax revenue as a p