Template talk:Constitution of the United States

message: I am moving preemption to the "interpretation" section, since preemption is not a clause or concept that appears explicitly in the Constitution, but rather derives from—is an interpretation of—the Supremacy Clause. Hydriotaphia 17:14, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)
In approximately a day, unless I hear objections, I shall remove Civil liberties of the United States from the template for several reasons.
# Most importantly, it is not a particularly informative article. It contains nothing that other articles (Freedom of speech in the United States, Equal Protection Clause, etc.) don't already have. 
# I think the limited space on the Template would be better used for other articles.
# I don't think it's quite accurate to say that civil liberties are an "interpretation" of the Constitution; rather, they derive from the guarantees of specific clauses, and thus the topic is better addressed in the articles on those clauses. 
I hope no one will be offended that I plan on doing this. Please let me know if you object. Best, Hydriotaphia 03:38, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC)
For the moment, however, I shall content myself with adding Incorporation (Bill of Rights) to the "intepretation" section and moving "due process"—and renaming it "Due Process Clause"—to the "Specific Clauses" section. Hydriotaphia 03:42, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC)
I have chagned 'signatures' to 'signatories', which is the title of the page it linked to, and a more desciptive word of what it links to.  JiMternet 23:49, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Interpretation section

message: I think a link to Albany Congress should be included, since the "Albany Plan" was the first document drawn up to create some sort of union of the colonies.  --JW1805 02:01, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Albany Congress

message: Anyone think that executive privilege should be added to "interpretation?" Kaisershatner 20:39, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Exec priv

message: This template has a lot of overlap with Template:Infobox US Constitution.  I think that infobox, at the very least, should have some actual info pertaining to each article it's used on.  Possibly other changes are necessary.  See Template talk:Infobox US Constitution for further discussion.  —Tox 21:41, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Overlap

message: For those of you who have watchlisted this page, you might be interested to know that "Taxing and Spending Clause" was moved to General Welfare Clause.  Firstly, the former gets only 3,130 ghits and the latter gets 2,270,000 27,300.  Moreover the article's own first reference supports the new name as primary, but doesn't even recognize the old one. 
I've taken care of all the double redirects, but there are still dozens of single. Squee23 19:21, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good; thanks. Publicola 20:03, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Taxing and Spending Clause"? -> "General Welfare Clause"

message: Under the amendments section, "Unsuccessful" is redirect to the page "Proposed" also links to. Eliminating that would be best and non-controversial. Outback the koala (talk) 05:30, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: —  Tivedshambo  (t/c) 06:52, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Remove a redirect 

message: ===Remove close paren===
There seems to be an incorrect lone closing parenthesis after "Signers". Doprendek (talk) 20:20, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope, it's correct. It's closing the parenthetical opened with "Philadelphia Convention (". --Cybercobra (talk) 20:49, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit request from Doprendek, 6 October 2010

message: There seems to be an incorrect lone closing parenthesis after "Signers". Doprendek (talk) 20:20, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope, it's correct. It's closing the parenthetical opened with "Philadelphia Convention (". --Cybercobra (talk) 20:49, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Remove close paren

message: Link to Article_Four_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Clause_2:_Federal_property_and_the_Territorial_Clause
Frappyjohn (talk) 23:02, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestion: Add "Property Clause" to Clauses Section