Finally, eight days before he leaves office after eight years there, he openly admits that the Constitution he swore an oath to "preserve, protect and defend" is nothing more than a mere piece of paper. Who'd a thunk it? Yeah, he supports the Second Amendment, BUT...

http://www.mrctv.org/blog/president-obama-says-us-constitution-just-piece-parchment

President Obama Says U.S. Constitution ‘Just a Piece of Parchment’

President Obama, as he concluded his farewell address in Chicago on Tuesday, called the U.S. Constitution “just a piece of parchment."

“Our Constitution is a remarkable, beautiful gift,” said Obama. “But it’s really just a piece of parchment.”

“It has no power on its own,” he went on. “We the people give it power. We the people give it meaning with our participation and with the choices that we make and the alliances that we forge…”

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So if you forge an alliance with billionaire Bloomberg to eventually bring about civilian disarmament, that's what the Constitution and Second Amendment mean. Riiiiiiiiight...

I am also disturbed by his continued fueling of racial "divide" that he created all on his own...he's such a loser

Essentially Obama is right though. An ideal without people to support it is meaningless. You can build a great government on paper but it takes people to implement it. For example, if George Washington didn't hand over power at the end of his term, the peaceful transfer of power we know and love today may never have established itself.

I'd say he's wrong, completely and utterly.  The power in that the "piece of parchment" is not given by man.  As the founders intended it to mean, that document is a curb of power wielded by man and government.  These fools have lost that these days and think they are kings and queens.  These tyrannical powers are the very powers that our forefathers fought and died for to distance the United States of America from.

That is why Trump won, and I hope that the new administration keeps its promises to return to that fundamental principal.

Guess the constitutional law  "instructor" (won't call him a professor) reveals his true contempt for the principles of which this nation were founded.  He must also believe the 13th amendment part of the constitution is also just a piece of paper.   He is and always has been wrong on most issues and his followers like Hitler's fanatics will always side with him no matter what crap he says.   If he's right, HRS is just a piece of paper.