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Constitution at Troynovant:
structures of American founding documents:
Declaration of Independence & United States Constitution;
debates on constitutionality;
listed by Title
See Law at Troynovant for legal institutions and matters less specifically related to American constitutional structure.
As the Declaration of Independence is America's definitional document, so the United States Constitution provides the structural framework for its core political institutions.
You, I, each one of us, is a minority of one. The Constitution, by limiting the trespass of institutions upon individuals, defends our natural right as rational, social individuals to live in harmonious society.
I want you to protect the Constitution. Learn, and stand up.
Robert Wilfred Franson
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[Belmont.]
Portia:
Some dear friend dead, else nothing in the world
Could turn so much the constitution
Of any constant man.
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice, 3.2.244-246
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The Volokh Conspiracy
news and discussion of Constitutional Law
and other rights & legalities
Enstrom Foundation
Liberate Public Schools from Government by Lawsuit:
the 17-year pro bono defense of
students' & parents' Constitutional rights
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Utopias at Troynovant
utopia in power, or dystopia
Smart Girl Politics
is ramping up their
National Voter Registration Drive
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We may find it illuminating to think of the United States Constitution not quite as the inspired grantor of American Exceptionalism, but as its early intellectual expression and beleaguered but ongoing practical catalyst. The Ship of State is not a perpetual-motion machine. Here's a fictional illustration.
Captain of salvage spaceship:
Right. Your mechanical trouble. Compression coil, you say?
Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of disabled Serenity:
It was the catalyzer.
Captain of salvage spaceship:
Not even the coil? Catalyzer's a nothing part, Captain.
Malcolm Reynolds:
It's nothing til you don't got one. Then it appears to be everything.
Out of Gas written by Tim Minear,
episode 8 of Firefly created by Joss Whedon
"Out of Gas" shooting script in
Firefly: The Official Companion, Volume Two
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