Master of the Senate

Is it too much to ask that  our candidates have  read the Constitution?  You can't really display a greater ignorance of the Constitution than to state like Sarah Palin did that the Vice President is master of the Senate.  Clueless.  The Vice President is ceremonial president of the Senate and can only vote as a tiebreaker.  The Senate is not merely an appendage of the executive branch.  There is something disturbing about this basic failure to understand the separation of powers at the foundation of our republic.  Does she think Senator McCain answers to Dick Cheney?  Has no one yet explained to her the functions of the Vice President since July when she stated she didn't know what the Vice President did?  I thought she was a quick study?  Then why does she still not know the job description she's running for?  I think the Constitution should be amended to require all candidates for federal office to have read the Constitution in order to run.