Justice Breyer discusses what the Court must do going forward to maintain that public confidence and argues for interpreting the Constitution in a way that works in practice. He forcefully rejects competing approaches that look exclusively to the Constitution's text or to the eighteenth-century views of the framers. Instead, he advocates a pragmatic approach that applies unchanging constitutional values to ever-changing circumstances--an approach...

Explores the flexible nature and survivability of the American Constitution, a document that is still relevant to its constituency after two centuries

Discusses the role of Congress in governmental separation of powers, defines the powers and rights held by Congress, and examines how the balance of power between President and Congress has shifted in the last two centuries.

While lobbying for a year-long open season on rabbits, Daffy Duck discovers how the constitutional system of checks and balances protects democracy in the United States.