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What’s Good About the US Constitution?

What’s Good About the US Constitution?
The Sub-Treasury Building (now Federal Hall National Memorial) opposite the Wall Street Stock Exchange in Manhattan, New York, at the time of the Wall Street Crash, November 1929. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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Suppose you’re supervising a group of 25 randomly chosen able-bodied people. You organize an informal game of softball among them. Chances are that most participants will have a good time, and no one will be injured.

Rob Natelson
Rob Natelson
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Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor who is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver, authored “The Original Constitution” (4th ed., 2025). He is a contributor to The Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Guide to the Constitution.” He also researched and wrote the scholarly article “Virgil and the Constitution,” whose publication is pending in Regent University Law Review.
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