Thomas L. Krannawitter 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.
The problem with this understanding, in addition to the fact it is untrue, is that it means, ultimately, the Constitution has no meaning. Or rather, it means whatever we want it to mean. This is to assert no more than might as the measure of right. Whatever can be said of such arguments, they certainly bear no resemblance to the arguments made by the Framers of the Constitution. The Constitution was based on the idea of an unchanging human nature.