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...political theater, with enough ( ideological conflicts, impassioned players and historic resonance to make it a worthy sequel to this summer's Iran-contra civics lesson. But the hearings into the nomination of Robert Bork as the nation's 104th Supreme Court Justice offer something more. At issue on the 200th birthday of the Constitution will be the most fundamental questions at the heart of that document and in the soul of the nation it constituted: What inalienable rights -- ranging from free speech to equal justice to personal privacy -- are guaranteed to citizens by the highest law of the land? Because...
During the course of the book, due to be released today--the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution--Crenshaw begins to doubt that Blacks can use the law to help gain social, economic, and political equality...
...whose sense of patriotism is informed by a sincere belief in the rule of law and the workings of democracy. The relentless Iran-contra testimony has been a painful as well as prolonged process, but it has also offered up a sound civics lesson to a nation celebrating the 200th anniversary of its Constitution: that + America is a nation of laws, of checks and balances, and of policies that must be accountable to elected officials and ultimately the people...
...weeks ago, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall objected to some of the pietism attending the 200th anniversary of the Constitution. Speaking to a lawyers' group in Hawaii, Marshall said the document had been "defective from the start." The fact that Marshall is the great-grandson of a slave sharpened his point...
...this 200th anniversary of the founding of the constitution, it must be repeated again and again that in the system of checks and balances devised by the Founding Fathers "the people" ultimately are sovereign. Elected officials rule at their pleasure and on their behalf. It was correctly assumed that the people would play a greater, if less explicit role in the governing of their lives than any of the three branches of government that magnificent document created. It was that obligation Americans neglected after they twice elected Ronald Reagan to the presidency. If any good is to come...