Weaknesses of the US Constitution

Question 1

Loopholes

Answer 1

Executive Directives, Orders, Agreements

Recess appointments

Question 2

Failures of Checks and Balances

Answer 2

• Merrick Garland 2016
• Federal Government shutdown in 1995 and 1996 under Clinton over medicare
• 2013 Government shutdown under Obama over Obamacare

Question 3

-1st and 2nd Amendments as straitjackets

Answer 3

• Schnider v. Phelps (2010)
• 33,000 deaths/annum by gun violence
• Columbine massacre, Charlestown massacre, San Bernadino

Question 4

Distortion of Democracy

Answer 4

Electoral College AL Gore and Clinton

Question 5

Failure to protect Civil Liberties

Answer 5

• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (1978)
• “Enhanced Torture Techniques”
• Trump’s “They’re bringing crime…drugs, they’re rapists” in 2016
• 52% of Hispanics have a high school diploma while 84% of whites do