Machine generated contents note:
1. Institutional Choices and the Preamble: It's a Real-World Document, Not a Utopian Blueprint
2. The Legislative Branch: It's a Congress, Not a Parliament
3. The Executive Branch: It's Headed by an Accountable Elected Official, Not a King or a Dictator
4. The Judicial Branch: It's a Group of Lawyers, Not Platonic Guardians
5. The Nation and the States: The Arrangement is Federal, Not Confederal or Unitary
6. The Constitutional Amending Process: It's Difficult because It's Designed to Preserve the Constitution as Fundamental Law
7. The Bill of Rights, and Freedom of Belief and Expression: They Provide for Liberty, Not License
8. The Bill of Rights, the Right to Security, and the Rights of the Accused and the Convicted: They Protect the Guilty in Order to Protect the Innocent
9. Equality and the Thirteenth through Fifteenth Amendments: It's an Equality of Opportunity, Not a Guarantee of Equal Results
10. Postscript: A Time for Reflection.
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The United States Constitution : one document, many choices by John R. Vile. ISBN 9781137513496. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
