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Show 124 inlorganism, but their companion in the .Iutien of thel, must give way; ests of a be IVIed problems come not out by Thomas. COIM ,Q$t, U$ed by lawyers can from The people come chonges, the to going all the way in his it in Q by the Comrnvnists, by it. and It is not G would legeny, In brief, foets In come prohibited revolutionary theory. Chonge first, in his would not making changes the people would obc:mdon the ConstiMion but Justify their very set up form further the inter"'" rigidly stcmd in the way of them. ThomGlS would be without the Constitution but with it. includi.ng history and missIon, first in time and politioAl their first in relation to institutional forms. institutional lif. of to the When the substance select few who would profit by maintaining it and nothing thinking daily problems. form bound a in the fulfillment of their caets by the principles of question of discarding the Constitution, fundamental chonge and thereby excl·uding it, but of using it for the ends of the as advocated required chonge. The because he soid there wos not Q provision in the Constitution giving the Federal Government the right to do anything for education. But, wheh (I great states men come into power, when CI great stetesmen sGt in the White House, of CI time when the Nation was loaded with debt, surrounded (1$ he was by overwhelming problems., beht down with worry, faced by uncertainties,. he yet knew tne grem fundamentcls upon which the Government rested, and brought into existence the greatest edueational act ever eonceived by man. It was considered to be unconstituti.onol by one President, but wos considered necessary by the other. In spite of aU the argument that can be made about the Constitution being strictly an instrument of delegated power, it WQS never set up to stop the progress and the onward march of the American people in achieving their economic and their pol (tical obJectives. It was set up to be a guide for them in attaining those ... ends. And that is what it is. Ibid., Vol. 94, p. 1109, (80th Congres$, 2d Sess., February S, 1948). |
