Rep. Raskin points out Rep. Bishop’s error in Thomas Jefferson reference

Bishop, doesn't know the difference between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.......Thanks, Rep.Jamie Raskin for teaching the uneducated.

When Jaime Raskin is in the building, you better have all your facts straight

I swear House Republicans used to be, at the very least, professional with a semblance of intelligence—-are they all now just goofballs?

I love the uneducated 😂 - 45th President

I thought almost everyone knew Jefferson was in Paris and John Adams was in the UK when the Constitution was signed. How could a member of the US House not know that? It iis mindblowing.

SHAME on the willful Ignorant.

❤ #Raskin.

Jefferson is credited with writing the Declaration of Independence as Congressman Raskin points out. But, what almost no one today is aware of is that Jefferson heavily plagiarized the Virginia Declaration of Rights written by George Mason in June 1776. Mason was a contemporary of Jefferson, a fellow Virginian, and like Jefferson a slave owner. Geo. Mason had great influence among his fellow delegates who wrote the Constitution. He refused to sign the first draft of the Constitution and wrote his objections on the back of his copy: 1. It did not contain a Bill of Rights. Mason's objections were instrumental in motivating James Madison to write the first draft of the Bill of Rights. No American for the past 230 years would have our rights under the Constitution if not for Mason. 2. It did not abolish slavery. Even though Mason was a slave owner he recognized and pointed out the obvious immoral contradictions in founding a govt on the God-given inalienable rights of all people to "...life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" and slavery. Had our Constitution abolished slavery in 1778, as Mason strongly urged, slavery never would have become widespread. There never would have been a Civil War and the 700,000 deaths it inflicted. There never would have been a KKK, no 150 years of Jim Crow racism throughout the southern states. Jefferson not only held slaves his entire life, he fathered numerous children by his slave and mistress, Sally Hemmings. Imo, Jefferson was not the greatest of men even though he did many great things. His hypocrisy regarding slavery is still harming American democracy to this very day imho. Btw, Britain abolished slavery decades before America and did so without the loss of a single human life, or a civil war. Geo. Mason is an unsung hero whom few Americans today remember. Jefferson's own words point out why this is important: "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." We who love freedom today must be vigilant against the creeping autocracy of Trump's MAGA cult members of Congress.

Raskin is a tool.