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Jun. 24, 2009
A Blueprint for Breathing Life Back Into a Dying Document
In "The Constitution in 2020" several scholars lay out their plan to bring the Constitution back from the dead, writes Matt Valenti.
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By Matt Valenti Is it dead or alive? The Constitution, that is. That's bound to be one of the questions posed to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor at her confirmation hearings this summer. Well, it might be one of the questions, assuming the Senate can avoid the current fixation on sideshows like President Obama's use of the word "empathy" or Sotomayor's public comments about the wisdom of Latino women. But ...
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