Constitution Pop!

Saturday is Patriot's Day, the day the American War for Independence began with the battles in Concord and Lexington. In these harrowing times, I thought it best if I picked up another copy of the United States Constitution. As an American citizen born in the Eisenhower administration, I have grown up just assuming my rights as detailed in that document were largely secure. These days not so much. The above volume is a fun way for a comics fan to revisit these solemn rights. 

I loved R. Sikoryak's Masterpiece Comics, so I'm sure I'm more than happy to add Constitution Illustrated to my collection. It's an enlightening revisit of the words which bind our trembling democracy together. 

This little ditty started appearing on Saturday morning television over fifty years ago. I have to admit I prefer the melody of "I am a Bill", but this one is pretty good too. What it speaks of is beyond good, it was noble, at least in its original intent and in more recent decades its interpretation and amendments. But now white men got scared they might not be top dogs anymore, so they scrounged themselves up a sociopathic galoot to run for the highest office in the land (he still works me though he tends to forget that) and win and begin a terror campaign which gives lie to not just essence of the document but the words themselves. 

Take a look at this remarkable document, the very one they'd love to get their hands on and shred.  

The Constitution of the United States | National Archives

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