1. The CONSTITUTION, PART 2 Cultural Politics Rights Poetics: Fidelity, Recommitment, Betrayal

2. 6-The Bill of Rights: Rights as the Problem AND the Solution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Q4V8WN F6k The RIGHT RIGHTS ? Which Right is MORE RIGHT? WHO or WHAT decides?

3. 7a-Popular Const Politics: Almost From the Very Start http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg0h_kdwvu 4&feature=related The emergence of organized parties, not recognized in the written CONST of 1787 and greatly feared by most Founders, mark a significant AMENDMENT, outside of Article V, to THE CONST

4. 7b-More Popular Politics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaPRnsgF xOU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaPRnsgF xOU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8LpTwW sw0Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8LpTwW sw0Y

5. 8a-The Constitution and the Popular Poetics of Fidelity I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the CONSTITUTION and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God. CONSENT RELATIONSHIP TO THE CONST

6. 8b-Fidelity 1

7. 8c-Fidelity 2

8. 8d-Fedelity 2

9. 8e-The Constitution and the Popular Poetics of Re-Commitment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iprVaZqVKJ Q Descent Relationship + Re-Commitment

10. 9-a: Poetics of Betrayal: “OUR” Central National Drama Even if all the PROMISES of the EXTENDED CONST might be divinely inspired, they are also primarily COMPACTS or solemn CONTRACTS with OURSELVES WHAT kind of “people” WE pledge to be HOW “WE” the People” pledge to live “OUR” FUNDAMENTAL Goals & Principles Constant, poetical PROPHESIES and POPULAR POETICAL accounts of how WE have Failed, how WE have, in the manner of Aaron Burr, BETRAYED OURSELVES Greil Marcus, THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME: PROPHESY & THE AMERICAN VOICE

11. 9b-Bob Dylan, High Water (for Charley Patton): 9/11/2001 High Water rising, rising night and day All the gold & silver are being stolen away Big Joe Turner looking east and west from the dark room of his mind He made it to Kansas City, 12 th Street & Vine Nothing standing there.... [Note the mixtures of “Biblical” + Popular Imagery in this song as in Tom Paine]

12. 9c-DYLAN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rn39Rd_xL k

13. 9d-GETTSBERG ADDRESS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvA0J_2ZpI Q

14. 9e-I HAVE A DREAM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJ k

15. 9f-BETRAYAL as a way of life: THE MALTESE FALCON http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=367gIa-4BAc

16. 10a-The Const, The Framers, The Founders as RHETORICAL RESOURCES THE UNSEEN: The Hemmings Family: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHzHurZj uh8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHzHurZj uh8 THE SEEN: from MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmXIe- 8wFpo&feature=related

17. 10b-Another Resource? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfeuU0NB5l g BURR vs. Hamilton

18. 10-b One final RHETORICAL RESOURCE