This excerpt is from a 1987 speech by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever "fixed" at the Philadelphia Convention. Nor
do I find the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice exhibited by the Framers particularly profound. To the
contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today. When contemporary Americans cite "The Constitution," they invoke a concept that is vastly different from what the Framers barely began to construct two centuries ago.
- When the Founding Fathers used this phrase [We, the
People] in 1787, they did not have in mind the majority of America's citizens. "We the People" included, in the words of the Framers,
"the whole Number of free Persons.


This excerpt is from a 1987 speech by President Ronald Reagan

In a very real sense, it was then, in 1787, that the Revolution truly began. For it was with the writing of our
Constitution, setting down the architecture of democratic government, that the noble sentiments and brave
rhetoric of 1776 took on substance.
All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights until that moment some might have said that was just a high-blown sentiment, the dreams of a few philosophers and their hot- headed followers. But could one really construct a government, run a country, with such idealistic notions?
But once those ideals took root in living, functioning institutions, once those notions became a nation-well,
then, as I said, the revolution could really begin, not just in America but around the world, a revolution to
free man from tyranny of every sort and secure his freedom the only way possible in this world, through the
checks and balances and institutions of limited, democratic government.


According to Justice Marshall, what historical factor Has conu
the ideas expressed in the U.S.
Constitution?
1.class war
2.religion
3.slavery
4.free enterprise

What basic assumption behind Marshall's remarks is not behind
Reagan's remarks?

1.The framers of the U.S. Constitution have received more
credit than they deserve for the governmental protections
Americans enjoy.
2.The U.S. Constitution created a government based on the
principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
3.The framers of the U.S. Constitution have been credited with
creating a document that protects all free people around the
world.
4.The U.S. Constitution created a government whose promises
are yet to be realized by many around the world.