1: Institutional Choices and the Preamble: It’s a Real-World Document, Not a Utopian Blueprint.
2: The Legislative Branch: It’s a Congress, Not a Parliament.
3: The Executive Branch: It’s Headed by an Accountable Elected Official, Not a King or a Dictator.
4: The Judicial Branch: It’s a Group of Lawyers, Not Platonic Guardians.
5: The Nation and the States: The Arrangement Is Federal, Not Confederal or Unitary.
6: The Constitutional Amending Process: It’s Difficult because It’s Designed to Preserve the Constitution as Fundamental Law.
7: The Bill of Rights and Freedom of Belief and Expression: They Provide for Liberty, Not License.
8: The Bill of Rights, the Right to Security, and the Rights of the Accused and the Convicted: They Protect the Guilty in Order to Protect the Innocent.
9: Equality and the Thirteenth through Fifteenth Amendments: It’s an Equality of Opportunity, Not a Guarantee of Equal Results.
