Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
When you don’t respect or follow the Constitution, it’s really easy to get it confused with other documents. Just ask Hillary Clinton….
Constitution, Declaration of Independence … whatever. That seemed to be Hillary Clinton’s take on the nation’s two most important documents during an interview Wednesday, as she confused the texts in making the case for more gun laws. The Democratic presidential front-runner mistakenly cited a “constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” during the interview with host Steve Harvey.
“We’ve got to say to the gun lobby, you know what, there is a constitutional right for people to own guns, but there’s also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that enables us to have a safe country where we are able to protect our children and others from this senseless gun violence,” she said.
Harvey offered her an approving “absolutely.” But the famous “life, liberty” line is, of course, from the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.
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You can watch the gaffe for yourself below:
http://youtu.be/HHoCd-6iREw