Constitution, Schmonstitution

Constitution, Schmonstitution: Legal Analyst Andrew Cohen Looks At Suggestions For Dumping The Document: including the views of Posner, Levinson (which I noted previously), Ackerman, and Labunski. As the author Andrew Cohen notes, the Constitution is not some Holy Writ–it was “a document conceived and drafted by rich white men during the political moment of their lives”; yet, as he also notes, “It does not need to be replaced, even temporarily, by an “emergency” document that would leave to far lesser men (and women) the task that Madison achieved.”

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10:48 pm on October 24, 2006