On September 17th, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional
Convention signed the U.S. Constitution, forever changing the
shape of world politics. The Constitution was brilliant in its
simplicity. For perhaps the first time in human history, a major
government was formed under the principle of preexisting human
rights. Rather than defining the rights of the people and
reserving all other power to the government, the Constitution
did the opposite: it enumerated the powers of the government and
reserved all other rights to the people. In recent decades that
document, which defines the United States of America, has come
under unrelenting attack by those who find it an encumbrance to
their political aims. Politicians, scholars, and pundits refer
to the Constitution as a “living document.” Ironically, the
Constitution was conceived and born a living document. It is
they who use that term who have killed it. Our founding fathers
recognized that conditions in American society would change, and
they crafted the Cons