I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.
What secret knowledge, one must wonder, is breathed into lawyers when they become Justices of this Court that enables them to discern that a practice which the text of the Constitution does not clearly proscribe, and which our people have regarded as constitutional for 200 years, is in fact unconstitutional?
At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now.
No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
I think most people have a general idea of the Constitution, and somewhat of the Bill of Rights.
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.
The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.
Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.
Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.