Word: philadelphia
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...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 hold as fundamental today...
...founders meeting in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 invented a true U.S. Ever since, the country has gone on inventing and reinventing itself -- the Constitution shaping the nation, a changing America rethinking the Constitution. The one time the Constitution proved inadequate to the task, in the 1860s, half a million died in order to improve the document. The Civil War amounted to a Second Constitutional Convention...
...well as words have made the Constitution -- sometimes deeds that were considered illegal. As Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe remarks, "The framing of the Constitution has been a continuous process rather than a purely episodic one. I think the real framers were not only the gentlemen who met in Philadelphia and those who drafted and ratified the crucial amendments, such as the amendments following the Civil War, but also the many people who often in the roles of dissent and rebellion, sat in, or marched and sang, or sometimes gave their lives, in order to translate their vision of what...
...institution. The genius of the Constitution has been the moral restlessness it embodies, and its capacity to change even while its basic structure abides. Today, all but six of the world's nations either have or are committed to having a single-document constitution. That idea was born in Philadelphia. Reverence is due to those men in the hot summer of the Enlightenment. They changed the world...
...Peale, his greater achievement was the invention of the first scientifically organized American museum open to the public on a continuous basis. His Peale's Museum in Philadelphia began modestly, with a few stuffed birds, and gradually expanded to include other "wonders" of science, nature and art, from a fossil mastodon to specimens brought back by Lewis and Clark from their trek across the continent, and a gallery of portraits of American heroes as well. He said he wanted "to bring into one view a world in miniature," and that was the gesture he painted himself making...