states, "under the Authority of the United States, [the Constitution]

shall be the supreme law of the land." As a result of the fact that

the current activist government is pursuing inconsistent policies,

many believe the Constitution has become irrelevant because no guiding

principles seem to exist. Thomas Jefferson once said, "The

Constitution belongs to the living and not to the dead." Accordingly,

it is often referred to as a "living" document because of its regular

alteration and reexamination; therefore, the Constitution has not

become irrelevant in defining the goals of American government. This

will be shown by examining how the Constitution ensures and upholds

American ideas of rights, defines governmental structures, allows for

an increase in governmental growth, and permits the Supreme Court to

shape and define public policy through Constitutional

Through years of research on court cases, political scientists

are in agreement that most people favor rights in theory, but their

support diminishes when the time to put the rights into practice

serves amajor role in an American's idea of rights. Many citizens

such thought is nearly three hundred years old. The Constitution also

authority, while the federal government should only have secondary

and logical definition of a right is a claim upheld by the law, in

belief that the states are vested with ultimate governmental

approximately ninety federal District Courts (Holder 40).

actors. Such actors, through providing services to beneficiaries, have

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