He reports oddities.
The Constitution prescribes six year terms for senators.
It prescribes departure from that rule only for senators elected to the first Congress, to achieve staggering of the six year terms of their successors.
But when new states are admitted the terms of their senators are customarily not both of six years, though this is actually unconstitutional, again for the sake of staggering.
The Constitution says the vice president presides in the Senate except when the president is impeached.
So he is to preside at his own impeachment?
Seidman dryly doubts that would be allowed.
Amusing.
The point of the book is that we have no duty of fidelity to the Constitution.
Neither we, the people, nor we government officials, nor we federal judges, nor, especially, we justices of the Supreme Court.
Many, though not all, liberals lustily applauded his book when it first appeared, laughing with delight.
No known conservatives were pleased or amused.
The arguments for his claim, as well as those for many related claims, are brutally fallacious and even egregiously obtuse.
Fallacies in apparently limitless abundance.
Perfect for a popular polemic.
The liberal fan base found all that especially delightful.
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