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

The Constitution also elaborates upon certain acts to which it

Since the birth of the United States, Americans have formed an

maintains that the Constitution, due to a broad interpretation, hints

on every case it oversees. The relevancy of the Constitution is quite

today because it doesn't properly define the goals of American

specifically the President of the United States- and specifies his

state governments, local governments, and local nongovernmental

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