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Rather than asking: “What factors have made it possible for a Constitution written in 1787 to survive into the 1990s and beyond?”, it might be more pertinent to as if the Constitution has survived the twentieth century so far? The New Deal, the radical assault on American institutions in the 1960s, and the Clinton presidency as the confirmation of that radical assault. Both questions may be answered the same way. The nature and tendency of American …

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