Reasons for the US Constitution
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The Constitution of the United States was the result of a "Great Compromise" in which leaders of the early days of the American Republic negotiated the relative powers that would be given to the three branches of the federal government and the division of powers between the national and the state governments (Janda, Berry, and Goldman, 81). The genius contained within the Constitution is reflected in the fact that it creates a people, explains its reason for being, articulates goals, and fashions a government (Janda, et al, 83). Levinson (30) stated that there is a special nature within the American Constitution in which its "writtenness supplies a tangibility, an ability quite literally to take the Constitution into one's own hands and read it with one's own eyes." It is a written instrument full and complete in itself which enjoys the force of law. Levinson (31) contends that "the mere text, and only the text, and not any commentaries or creeds written by those who wished to give the text a meaning apart from its plain reading was adopted as the Constitution of the United States." Because this is the case, Calvi and Coleman (132) state that jud
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