Schoolhouse Rock Constitution Preamble

September 17, 2009 By Elizabeth

But first, for my regular readers- the Service Manager at the car dealership agreed to let me pay him $500 now and $300 next month. He told me on the phone that they don’t usually give lines of credit to individuals, but he would agree to my terms. What really ticks me off is that this is the first time in such a long time that I had actually saved money for Christmas, and now it’s gone. On the other hand, if I hadn’t had that money saved, we would have been screwed. So, there was a silver lining in the cloud after all.

And now, please enjoy this classic video from Schoolhouse Rock! Did you know that the Federal Government isn’t allowed, by law, to require schools to teach certain lessons, only the State can. But the Constitution has to be taught in Social Studies or History class on the 17th. I had no idea! All I do know is, the only reason I can recite the Preamble to the Constitution is because of this: