The CONSTITUTION, PART 2

Cultural PoliticsRights

Poetics: Fidelity, Recommitment, Betrayal

6-The Bill of Rights: Rights as the Problem AND the Solution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Q4V8WNF6k

The RIGHT RIGHTS?

Which Right is MORE RIGHT?

WHO or WHAT decides?

7a-Popular Const Politics: Almost From the Very Start

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg0h_kdwvu4&feature=related

The emergence of organized parties, not recognized in the written CONST of 1787 and greatly feared by most Founders, mark a significant AMENDMENT, outside of Article V, to THE CONST

7b-More Popular Politics

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaPRnsgFxOU

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8LpTwWsw0Y

8a-The Constitution and the Popular Poetics of Fidelity

I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the CONSTITUTION and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.

CONSENT RELATIONSHIP TO THE CONST

8b-Fidelity 1

8c-Fidelity 2

8d-Fedelity 2

8e-The Constitution and the Popular Poetics of Re-Commitment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iprVaZqVKJQ

Descent Relationship + Re-Commitment

9-a: Poetics of Betrayal: “OUR” Central National Drama

Even if all the PROMISES of the EXTENDED CONST might be divinely inspired, they are also primarily COMPACTS or solemn CONTRACTS with OURSELVESWHAT kind of “people” WE pledge to beHOW “WE” the People” pledge to live“OUR” FUNDAMENTAL Goals & Principles

Constant, poetical PROPHESIES and POPULAR POETICAL accounts of how WE have Failed, how WE have, in the manner of Aaron Burr, BETRAYED OURSELVES

Greil Marcus, THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME: PROPHESY & THE AMERICAN VOICE

9b-Bob Dylan, High Water (for Charley Patton): 9/11/2001

High Water rising, rising night and dayAll the gold & silver are being stolen awayBig Joe Turner looking east and west from the

dark room of his mindHe made it to Kansas City, 12th Street & VineNothing standing there . . . .

[Note the mixtures of “Biblical” + Popular Imagery in this song as in Tom Paine]

9c-DYLAN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rn39Rd_xLk

9d-GETTSBERG ADDRESS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvA0J_2ZpIQ

9e-I HAVE A DREAM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk

9f-BETRAYAL as a way of life: THE MALTESE FALCON

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=367gIa-4BAc

10a-The Const, The Framers, The Founders as RHETORICAL RESOURCES

THE UNSEEN: The Hemmings Family: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHzHurZjuh8

THE SEEN: from MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmXIe-8wFpo&feature=related

10b-Another Resource?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfeuU0NB5lg

BURR vs. Hamilton

10-b One final RHETORICAL RESOURCE