This week we feature “Great Books” philosopher Mortimer J. Adler speaking on the United States Constitution of 1787. Adler taught “Philosophy of Law” at the University of Chicago law school, and William Winslow Crosskey (Politics and the Constitution in the History of the United States, 1953) taught “Constitutional Law” there.
Adler’s position seems to agree with Crosskey’s analysis regarding “original intent” — as, of course, an Aristotelian would — meaning he’s for it, especially the importance of the Preamble as a statement of purpose that frames the entire document, not just a poetic intro as adherents of “the living Constitution” theory would have it:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
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Mortimer Adler on the U.S. Constitution
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And if you want the playlists for previous videos:
Economic Personalism (The Book)
Economic Personalism v. The Great Reset
Socialism, Modernism and the New Age
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