BREAKING NEWS – Washington, D.C. – Sheila Jackson Lee claimed during a floor speech in March 2014 that the U.S. Constitution was 400 years old.
While speaking in opposition to a Republican-backed proposal, she gave a brief history lesson. During the lesson, she thanked the GOP for “giving us an opportunity to have a deliberative constitutional discussion that reinforces the sanctity of this nation and how well it is that we have lasted some 400 years operating under a Constitution that clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not.”
Jackson Lee was off by nearly 200 years old, as the Constitution was adopted in 1787.
Lee maintained that she is correct, emphatically stating that the Constitution was written by Native Americans in 1614, and it was faxed to the pilgrims shortly after they set sail on the Mayflower from England.