Beau Breslin, "A Constitution for the Living: Imagining How Five Generations of Americans Would Rewrite the Nation's Fundamental Law"
English | ISBN: 0804776709 | 2021 | 384 pages | EPUB | 1021 KB
English | ISBN: 0804776709 | 2021 | 384 pages | EPUB | 1021 KB
What would America's Constitutions have looked like if each generation wrote its own?
"The earth belongs…to the living, the dead have neither powers nor rights over it." These famous words, written by Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, reflect Jefferson's lifelong belief that each generation ought to write its own Constitution. According to Jefferson each generation should take an active role in endorsing, renouncing, or changing the nation's fundamental law. Perhaps if he were alive today to witness our seething debates over the state of American politics, he would feel vindicated in this belief.
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