Definitely relevant to recent class discussion on the Constitution. Besides the "beer before liquor" clause (Amendment LXIX, I believe), I'd have to agree my favorite aspect of the Constitution is the artful way in which the Framers left loose ends, e.g. (per Laurence Tribe's mentioning) in the IX amendment-- not to mention the various ambiguous wordings throughout the document. This extra care that the Framers took added so much vitality to the Constitution as a functioning document. The Constitution was not a written to serve as a jumping-off point to be filed away as "archaic"-- the Framers meant for it to stick around for a while, as it has.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Colbert w/Laurence Tribe on the Constitution
Definitely relevant to recent class discussion on the Constitution. Besides the "beer before liquor" clause (Amendment LXIX, I believe), I'd have to agree my favorite aspect of the Constitution is the artful way in which the Framers left loose ends, e.g. (per Laurence Tribe's mentioning) in the IX amendment-- not to mention the various ambiguous wordings throughout the document. This extra care that the Framers took added so much vitality to the Constitution as a functioning document. The Constitution was not a written to serve as a jumping-off point to be filed away as "archaic"-- the Framers meant for it to stick around for a while, as it has.
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