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The Constitution's Bicentennial: Commemorating The Wrong Document?, Thurgood Marshall
The Constitution's Bicentennial: Commemorating The Wrong Document?, Thurgood Marshall
Vanderbilt Law Review
1987 marks the 200th anniversary of the United States Constitution. A Commission has been established to coordinate the celebration. The official meetings, essay contests, and festivities have begun.
The planned commemoration will span three years, and I am told 1987 is "dedicated to the memory of the Founders and the document they drafted in Philadelphia."' We are to "recall the achievements of our Founders and the knowledge and experience that inspired them, the nature of the government they established,its origins, its character, and its ends, and the rights and privileges of citizenship, as well as its attendant responsibilities."
Like many …