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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"I do not believe," Marshall went on, "that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia convention." The document required "several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ark of America | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

Of the making of books about the Constitution there is no end, especially in this bicentenary year, when thousands of people from the President to the most unassuming kindergarten teacher are trying to define, not always with impartial clarity, the document's conception and meaning. But for an authentic and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: The Word from the Framers | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

A republican, in political terms, West was not. He was George III's favorite painter and, more than that, his personal friend, so much so that when the unpopular King contemplated going into exile in Germany in the early 1780s, the man he asked to go with him was West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART A Plain, Exalted Vision | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

The 4,440 words set down by the framers mapped out first principles of government in spare but sweeping lines. The amendments added since the Bill of Rights have actually done little to alter the document's intrinsic meaning, though they took such dramatic steps as abolishing slavery, expanding the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAW Is It Broke? Should We Fix It? | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

As fireworks bathe Independence Hall in a Bicentennial burst of glory, Americans feel a reverential glow. The framers' words, painstakingly inscribed on four sheets of parchment, have the aura of the sacred about them. The Ark of America, it is a civic icon that is worshiped, if not always read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

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