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privileges, and shielding them against any assumption
of
arbitrary
power.
(Calhoun,
Disquisition
on
Government, Works, i. 11 and Cooly, Constitutional
Limitation, 8th Edn.4)
A constitution of a country is the supreme legal
framework by which the State is organsied and run. To
comprehend about a constitution of a country it is
necessary to keep in mind, what were the objects
which the Framers of the constitution set out to
achieve through this document? What were the modest
will
to
which
the
framers
turned?
What
were
the
deal
with
the
pitfalls the Framers tried to avoid?
At
this
juncture,
I
want
to
aspects of American’s constitution. In its preamble,
it is stated “We the people of the United States,...
do ordain and establish this Constitution...” These
words did more than promise popular self-governance.
They also embodied and enacted it— like the phrase “I
do” in an exchange of wedding vows and ‘I accept’ in
a contract — the Preamble’s words actually performed
the very thing they described. Thus the Founders’
‘Constitution’ was not merely a text but a deed-a