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March 8, 2006
Constitutional Editing
Our daughter's math homework tonight was about basic statistical sampling. We were discussing the terms population, sample and random sample. To help explain, I tried to use election sampling. We got a little off-track when she discovered President Bush was prevented from running again:
Me: Suppose you wanted to know who in the country would vote for President Bush in the next election (which he can't do).
Daughter: Why not?
Me: He can only have two terms.
Daughter: That's wrong!
Me: It's written that way in the Constitution.
Daughter: Someone needs to rewrite it in permanent marker, then.
Me: It's already written in something stronger than permanent marker.
Daughter: Then someone needs to get some white-out!
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Very cute. Would she have felt the same way about Clinton?
Posted by: Ed Kohler at March 8, 2006 10:17 PM
A lot of things need to be written into the constitution in permanent marker: I'd start with the 1st and 2nd amendments, congress's limitations in Art. I and some other stuff.
Posted by: nemesisenforcer at March 9, 2006 12:07 AM
She doesn't remember Clinton much, but she's a proud Texan, so she really likes President Bush. :)
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at March 9, 2006 10:45 AM