Teach a child year in and year out that the American Constitution is the ultimate embodiment of political wisdom and you increase tenfold the difficulty of rational and necessary amendment by the generation to which that child belongs.
Laski critiques the uncritical reverence for foundational political documents and its implications for democratic evolution.
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