Jan ‘11
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The Original Intent of the U.S. Constitution
The good news in this last election is that more Americans purport to own, carry and read the Constitution. The bad news is that each person has a different version of the original 4400-word document and no experience with the nearly 225 year tradition of its interpretation in which all our forefathers and mothers, through our judicial systems, have participated. Jill LePore does a nice job in The New Yorker of using history to help us understand the originality of intent. She concludes: ”If the Constitution is a fiddle, it is also all the music that has ever been played on it. Some of that music is beautiful; much of it is humdrum; some of it sounds like hell.”
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