Comments on: Cato’s Constitution Day Sept. 17 https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/09/catos-constitution-day-sept-17/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 05 Sep 2015 19:11:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: mx https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/09/catos-constitution-day-sept-17/comment-page-1/#comment-327198 Sat, 05 Sep 2015 19:11:56 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=55055#comment-327198 Can we also discuss the absurdity of Constitution Day as a federally mandated holiday (I certainly have no argument against private occasions on whatever day to study and/or celebrate the Constitution) wherein appropriate events must be arranged by every federally funded educational institution ranging from the local elementary school to vocational institutes for future hairstylists or airplane mechanics? We could talk about how its genesis was tucked into a 3,000 page appropriations bill or how Constitution Day itself is arguably unconstutitonal.

It is certainly not within the spirit of the Constitution that Congress in Washington DC would prescribe a specific topic of study to be taught on a particular day to legal adults at, say, a culinary academy in California.

]]> By: Workplace religious accommodation, cont'd - Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/09/catos-constitution-day-sept-17/comment-page-1/#comment-327192 Sat, 05 Sep 2015 12:30:07 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=55055#comment-327192 […] filed under Kentucky’s state Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). And at Cato’s Constitution Day on September 17 I’ll be discussing my forthcoming piece on EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch, the […]

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