Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pervasiveness of the charter's influence visually. He and Ferrer decided to organize the magazine around themes from the Constitution rather than in TIME's usual sections. Says Bentkowski: "The whole process was engrossing. It became richer as we went along." A case in point is the photographic essay that accompanies the story by TIME Senior Writer Lance Morrow about the ubiquitous effects of the Constitution on U.S. citizens. Most of the pictures were planned in advance with Dorothy Affa, who directed photo research for the issue. Says Bentkowski: "Our aim here was not to document everyday life...
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...Franklin, when he wrote of striving for moral perfection in the Autobiography, said that he originally set his ambitions in the light of an already God-perfected world. "Whatever is, is right," he quoted John Dryden; Pope used precisely the same line in "An Essay on Man." Washington, whose presence hovered over the Constitutional Convention like a muse, also advocated moderation: "We ((Americans)) are apt to run from one extreme to another," he wrote John Jay in 1786. As for Madison, the Constitution's principal and most elegant-minded architect, his views were straight Enlightenment dogma. "Why has government been...
...imitation of the moderate universe in which 18th century Europe trusted. One of the framers, John Dickinson, even saw the proposed relationship between the states and the Federal Government as an analogue to Newtonian physics; and why not? Whatever is, is right. If the "man" Pope considered in his "Essay" needed a body of laws, the American Constitution would do just fine...
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