Most constitutions - including the American one - aspire to "freeze history," or to set up a lasting institutional order that will resist the winds of change. Indeed, a constitution is by its nature an attempt to "tame" history, to make it follow the laws of man rather than its own logic, including unwelcome contingencies and the whims of fate.
大多数宪法，包括美国宪法，都渴望"凝固历史"，或建立一个最终的能抵抗变化的法律文本。事实上，宪法的本义就是试图"控制"历史，让历史跟随人类制定的法律而不是它自己的逻辑，包括不受欢迎的偶然性以及命里的一时冲动。