This book presents essays by three distinguished scholarsoMary Frances Berry, Milton C. Cummings, Jr., and Richard B. Morrisodelivered at a symposium celebrating the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution on October 17, 1987 at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. Each of the essays provides a perspective on the evolving nature of the Constitution in keeping with the theme of the symposiumoThe Living Constitution. Professor Morris focuses on "The Living Constitution Revisited, 1787." Professor Morris believes one reason for the durability of the Constitution is its "plastic quality" which was a deliberate aim of those who drafted the document, he contends. In the second essay, "The Living Constitution Reexamined, 1987," Professor Berry emphasizes that the living nature of the Constitution has been essential for it to have meaning for those groups who were overlooked at the time of its origins and to address the needs of changing times. In the last essay, "The Living Constitution Redefined, 2187," Professor Cummings examines factors which have served as "engines for change" in the past to foresee some of the changes this living document may undergo in the next two centuries.
- ISBN10 0819172065
- ISBN13 9780819172068
- Publish Date 30 December 1988
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 8 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of America
- Format Paperback
- Pages 54
- Language English