The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have been made of those words, the amendments, the failed amendments, the struggles, the debatesthe course of eventsover more than two centuries. It is not easy, but it is everyones.
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- Politics — Governance, civic duty, and the structures of power