The CONSTITUTION, PART 2 Cultural Politics Rights Poetics: Fidelity, Recommitment, Betrayal.
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Transcript of The CONSTITUTION, PART 2 Cultural Politics Rights Poetics: Fidelity, Recommitment, Betrayal.
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