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The American Constitution: Basic Charter or First Draft?

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The American Constitution is a remarkable and uniquely successful national charter, so brilliantly crafted that it has required only seventeen amendments in the last two hundred years. However, the current Congress has lost sight of this, proposing nearly one hundred amendments in the last seventeen months. This reflects a distressingly casual attitude toward the Constitution, and it ignores the fact that our Constitution should be seen as a framework of this country's enduring values rather than a tool to advance a particular political agenda.

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40 Ariz. L. Rev. 709 (1998)

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Theodore C. Sorenson (Paul, Weiss, Rifknd, Wharton & Garrison)

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