The 1787 Constitution - TODAY
Rather than asking: “What factors have made it possible for a Constitution written in 1787 to survive into the 1990s and beyond?”, it might be more pertinent to as if the Constitution has survived the twentieth century so far? The New Deal, the radical assault on American institutions in the 1960s, and the Clinton presidency as the confirmation of that radical assault. Both questions may be answered the same way.The nature and tendency of American constitutionalism at the present time, in the light of standards and principles held in the past. Although there may be value in trying to track the future of specific trends into the future, political life is unpredictable, and it is difficult to say what might happen to judicial activism, executive power, bureaucratic administration, states rights, federal centralization, etc. in the future. The text of the Constitution will continue to be referred to, invoked, and argued about in political controversies, this much is true. But in itself that fact does not say much, especially when many who invoke the Constitution as text regard it as a mere "condensation symbol" having no substantive content or real meaning. It seems better, and even necessary philosophically, to regard the e
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