The Words We Live By: The Constitution as a Living System
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
This episode explores The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution by Linda R. Monk as a systems-level analysis of constitutional design, popular sovereignty, and institutional power.
The discussion examines:
· how “We the People” became both a founding claim and an unresolved constitutional question
· why Article I gives Congress power while surrounding that power with limits
· how checks and balances turn ambition into a structural control mechanism
· why amendments and interpretation allow…
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