They, even, make $ on the Constitution itself!

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http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitut....overview.html

This is a copy of the page with my comment below.

The Constitution of the United States of America

[The full Constitution, in both hypertext and word-processor formats, can be purchased and downloaded for individual local use from the LII. For details click here.]

This is self-explanatory.

Law field becomes so commercial that, even, Universities begin charging the Citizens monies for their own Constitution, which belongs to the Citizens, if the latter wish to download and read.

How more absurd and corrupt can it get?

[Shoonra]

The Cornell Law School website is famous for carrying an enormous amount of legal material, which necessarily involves a good deal of money for bandwidth, equipment, and the like. As a considerable number of the people using this website have nothing to do with Cornell, I think Cornell is entitled to ask for donations. At least it is charging a subscription.

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Originally Posted by Shoonra

The Cornell Law School website is famous for carrying an enormous amount of legal material, which necessarily involves a good deal of money for bandwidth, equipment, and the like. As a considerable number of the people using this website have nothing to do with Cornell, I think Cornell is entitled to ask for donations. At least it is charging a subscription.

How are you?

I have a deep respect for librarians and 690 posts you placed on this Forum as you share your knowledge, which may help so many others in the process.

I am sure your knowledge would help me too when I encounter it and thank you in advance.

A person of certain high qualities would choose to become a librarian as that title speaks fro itself and commands respect in my opinion by being surrounded by so much knowledge and constant access to it.

In reference to the subject:

I believe that you have a point and so do I.

As I may not speak on anyone's behalf, I would, respectfully, raise my arguments only.

1) Constitution, itself, any download or copying from a University’s Website should not be charged for; for, it is the noble Constitution, which should be close to be sacred as it was in intended to be and belongs to all the People and should not be commercialized.

2) As much monies and profit the US makes, it could support the Universities very well.

Such support is, also, tax deductible for corporations.

If the Government can allocate millions for nonsense and, sometimes, outright fraud, it could and should do so for the education.

Ask yourself how much teachers are paid and consider how much they influence the society as practically every child goes to school?

Compare that with a baseball player for example or an NBA star or an attorney.
Do you feel that monies are allocated fairly and according to the value provided to the society?

The corporate world would rather embezzle the monies, spend million for lobbying in order to get what is convenient to them, meanwhile, the People have to pay monies online for the Constitution.

3) Had the University published the book related to the Constitution and placed the copies in stores, the books should not be free due to the printing costs and such.

4) Running a Website costs monies too.
Yet, the entity in issue, the C.U., incurs the same expenses whether it has put the few WebPages related to the Constitution on its Website or not.

I can assure you that the cost of putting/maintaining the pages of the Constitution less than a penny, literally.


5) Knowing how the education system is run, I, believe, I am not incorrect, to assume that, students, themselves, put many, including the Constitution’s pages on the Website as Colleges/Universities are notorious for running programs, where the students either volunteer their work for credits or even ar obligated to perform certain duties for free or virtually free.

Conclusion:

Due to all of the above, as well as to other arguments that may have not been raised but are of the merit, in the light of the issue, I sincerely believe that the Constitution of the US should not be charged as a download.

On the contrary, there should be a disclaimer to all on the nature, "we encourage all Citizens to download and know their Constitution well and successfully utilize it in their lives."

I truly believe that it appears to be fine when C.U. places its request for donations on the main page but not such request or direct fee for the Constitution’s download at those page(s.)


The above has been, only, my opinion as we are all have equal rights to such and mine is not above yours in any way.
It is only an expression of my sincere beliefs in that matter.

I could tell by your reply that you have visited the link and that should be an example of an opinion based on first hand knowledge and discernments, whether they are accurate or not, which becomes more clear during logical arguments.

There are too many folks who love to comment on what they have no clue at all and never bother following the links.

As long as we try, only good things would happen.

It is also proper to note that C.U. Website is a valuable and truly useful one as much information is there.

I could only wish that its professors would stress the value of basic morals and virtues as the statistics shows that the Ivy League and the top, law schools have, mostly, produced resourceful and capable minds that, customarily, provide the bulk of the lobbying force for the corporations, allowing them to find and create loopholes and, also, get involved in questionable political engagements.

The elite hires these graduates extensively as knows well that must utilize the most talented ones and pay generously so that it can accomplish its goals, which produce the profits and security by so much more in return.

The steeling of the Constitution and gradual Amendments so that the elite can secure its power, while the People are left with less and less IS ACCOMPLISHED BY THE IVY LEAGUE LAW SHCOOLS and such direct work for the elite.
Elite for the elite; the Ivy league for the political/corporate Ivy…

Before you feel their pain, ask yourself, do they feel your pains or helped to cause some of them directly?

ps. On a different subject:

I believe it was one of the biggest loose to the humanity when the Alexandrian Library was burned to the ground.

The knowledge it contained has never been replenished as it contained, among others, the secret knowledge of the past, passed on from the previous generations, possibly civilizations, and the ancient schools of enlightenment.

If people only knew what they lost.

I have, always, wondered, since I learned of the tragedy, as wise as the ancients were, did they have a considerable back-up of the most crucial writings in other places?

[Shoonra]

Cornell is not charging money for the Constitution. It is requesting donations for all of its very considerable legal database, which I think is run more by computer geeks than by the law professors.

There are plenty of free sources of the Constitution on the internet - including this Cornell site, since you are merely being asked, not required, to help defray its expenses.

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Originally Posted by Shoonra

Cornell is not charging money for the Constitution. It is requesting donations for all of its very considerable legal database, which I think is run more by computer geeks than by the law professors.

There are plenty of free sources of the Constitution on the internet - including this Cornell site, since you are merely being asked, not required, to help defray its expenses.

Thank you.

I, respectfully, quote only:

The Constitution of the United States of America

[The full Constitution, in both hypertext and word-processor formats, can be purchased and downloaded for individual local use from the LII. For details click here.]

If there are any doubts, the link below, confirms my accuracy of copy/paste.
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitut....overview.html