Lithwick On The House Of Representatives' (Selective) Reading Of The Constitution

In her "Constitutional Whitewash" column in Slate, Dahlia Lithwick comments on the way in which the House of Representatives read the United States Constitution in its "most modern, amended form" on January 6, 2011, thereby leaving out the document's reference to enslaved men, women, and children as three-fifths of a person. (You may recall that during the reading of the section of the Constitution setting out the eligilibity requirements for the president a woman yelled out "except Obama, except Obama!") Also omitted, by accident, was a reading of sections of Article IV and Article V; apparently, the reader turned two pages instead of one and the missing material was later read into the Congressional record.