Constitution

Date: August 7, 2007
Time: 6 PM
Place: Academic Center


According to Dr. Charles A. Beard our system of checks and balances has been corrupted from the get go.
I disagree that the system is completley rigged, but Dr. Beard interestingly notes that the majority of the Framers of the Constitution were lawyers and that the Constition is "an economic document drawn w/ superb skill by men whose property interests were immediatley at stake...(they had to) determine the property relations between members of society; thus the dominant classes had to either control the organs of government or to enact rules that were consistent with their larger efforts to continue their own economic affairs."