Few people know what today is.
During both the drafting of the Constitution and the ensuing debates over its ratification, the struggle to procure the new system of government was not an easy one. But in the end, America came down in support of what has endured as the oldest working constitution in the world today. But we should not respect the Constitution simply because it is tradition. There are, after all, bad traditions. Today there are two competing schools of interpreting the meaning of the Constitution.