How can a progressive like Hillary Clinton be bothered with some dusty old documents like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution?

They were written by racist slave owners, after all.

During an appearance on the Steve Harvey Show Wednesday, Clinton showed she needs to brush up on the language in the document she’s aiming to swear to uphold and defend.

While discussing the Second Amendment, Clinton told Harvey, “We’ve got to say to the gun lobby, you know what, there is a constitutional right for people to own guns.

“But there’s also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that enables us to have a safe country — where we are able to protect our children and others from this senseless gun violence.”

No such language appears in the Constitution. It is, of course, in the Declaration of Independence.

Via Archives.org:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

While many Americans may appreciate Clinton’s liberal reading of the Constitution, it may also give them pause that she doesn’t know what the document actually says.

Judicial Watch obtained State Department emails that revealed her top aids have said she’s often confused.

The (Huma) Abedin email material contains a January 26, 2013, email exchange with Clinton aide Monica Hanley regarding Clinton’s schedule in which Abedin says Clinton is “often confused:”

* Abedin: Have you been going over her calls with her? So she knows singh is at 8? [India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh]
* Hanley: She was in bed for a nap by the time I heard that she had an 8am call. Will go over with her
* Abedin: Very imp to do that. She’s often confused.