# Pointless Political Question.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-political-question/110825>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 25, 2002, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-political-question/110825 "2002-05-25T18:58:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-political-question/110825/21 "2002-05-27T06:45:04Z")

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> Of course, by the way, under the topic of “officially screwed”, if things ever got bad enough, all we’d have to do would be to start ignoring the Constitution. There’s plenty of precedent: For over two hundred years, we Americans have been completely ignoring the official and lawful authority of the monarch. Official or not, a government is only as significant as the people under it think it is.

I’m guessing you’re referring to something from English Common Law here but I don’t know what. As far as I know the Constitution takes precedence over anything we inherrited from common law. Care to enlighten us? 😃

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