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As to the question of the educational value
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of the Constitution, of course --
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MR. GENTRY: Before you leave that. Would
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good basic sound principles change from generation to
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generation, change with the times?
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PROFESSOR ROSEN: Words change from generation
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to generation, words change and no matter how you phrase
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these good sound basic principles, the meaning of the
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words will change.
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As to the educational value of the Constitutiot
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I couldn't agree more, one of the major functions of the
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Constitution, like the Federal Constitution which un-
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fortunately most state'constitutions do not serve, is
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the symbolic educational value and the fact of the matter
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is it probably has the symbolic educational value because
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it is a short, terse Constitution, having at this point,
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after 170-odd years, only twenty-four — am I right --
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twenty-four amendments and virtually all provisions of
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which are enforceable in one form or another.
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As a matter of fact, we discovered only
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recently that even the Ninth Amendment is enforceable;
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