The answer is: Both. Understanding why the Constitution represents the best of classical and modern thought is a reason for fellow citizens to revisit rather than blindly reject the Constitution.
Tom, have you done any work comparing constitutions and their approaches to rights. I’m not an expert, but my understanding of the Brazilian constitution is that it promises to deliver all kinds of positive rights. However, despite these promises, it hasn’t delivered.
Working on this idea of passion without reason. It seems on college campuses these days it is all passion playing out and this I believe leads to civil war. We lose our reason and rely solely on emotion to make arguments. Woodrow Wilson thought it was the Constitution that was the problem, but I think it is a fundamental character trait of people who do not guard their mature reasoning ability and rely solely on their immature emotional reactionism.
Tom, have you done any work comparing constitutions and their approaches to rights. I’m not an expert, but my understanding of the Brazilian constitution is that it promises to deliver all kinds of positive rights. However, despite these promises, it hasn’t delivered.
https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Brazil_2017
Working on this idea of passion without reason. It seems on college campuses these days it is all passion playing out and this I believe leads to civil war. We lose our reason and rely solely on emotion to make arguments. Woodrow Wilson thought it was the Constitution that was the problem, but I think it is a fundamental character trait of people who do not guard their mature reasoning ability and rely solely on their immature emotional reactionism.